Villa del Rosario is a Colombian municipality and city located in the eastern part of North Santander department.

Some of the most important residents in the valleys held a meeting on 15 July 1771 with the intention of formalising the creation of the parish.

Consequently, on 18 May 1792, the title of "Noble, Leal y Valerosa Villa" was granted by Royal Warrant to the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Villa del Rosario contributed many great men, most notably General Francisco de Paula Santander, famous as a soldier and legislator, whose achievements in the Revolution and the formation of the Republic made him prominent in public administration and the founding of Colombia's particular form of democracy.

A great variety of heroes were born in its lands, among them General Francisco de Paula Santander, Colonel Pedro Fortoul, Colonel José Concha, the philosopher Frutos Joaquin Guitierrez de Caviedes and the priest Nicolas Mauricio de Omaña, (both signers of the act of independence 1810) and many other heroes who gave their lives for the freedom of Colombia Villa del Rosario also gave rise to great people such as, for example, the historian Luis Gabriel Castro (creator of the book Traveling through the capital of Gran Colombia, the mathematician Manuel Antonio Rueda Jara (nationally recognized for his contributions to education and creator of some books such as The Toy of Numbers and Mercantile Accounting).