[1] This town had shared its urban area with the neighboring Colombia until the government of Eleazar López Contreras.

Back then the Venezuelan part was called Elorza, honoring the Venezuelan hero Andrés Elorza, and the Colombian part was called El Viento (The Wind) In August 2001, Venezuela completed a nationwide conversion of land-line phones to three-digit area codes and seven-digit local numbers.

It is in the region of the Venezuelan Llanos in the Apure State, it is located at 07°03′35″N 69°29′48″W / 7.05972°N 69.49667°W / 7.05972; -69.49667 and is 55 kilometres (34 mi) east of the Colombian border.

The name of José Andrés Elorza[6] was chosen since he had joined the army of Paez with the rank captain in La Trinidad de Orichuna,[4] a nearby town to El Viento.

In March 2018, Elorza began to issue its own currency, in response to the hyperinflation of the hard bolívar.