Puerto Gaitán (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto ɣajˈtan]) is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia.

Puerto Gaitán was founded on February 11, 1932, when Venezuelan merchants: Pedro Capella, Ventura Alvarado and Concepción Izanoboco arrived on the banks of the Manacacías River and settled there before the announcement of the provision of a ferry or ferryboat from the Manacacías River to achieve transit between Puerto Carreño and Villavicencio.

In this first point there was quite a lot of “majaguillo” tree, which gave it the name of majaguillal, until 1960 when it was elevated to the category of Police Inspection of the municipality of Puerto López and was called Manacacías.

It includes an extensive area of flat structure known as the Savannahs of the Altillanura, whose main articulating axis is the Meta River.

The economic activities of the municipality are basically subscribed to livestock, medium-scale agriculture, trade and fishing is incipient and artisanal industry as well.