Yaguará (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝaɣwaˈɾa]) is a town and municipality in the Huila Department, Colombia.

The urban centre is located at an elevation of 650 metres (2,130 ft) in the Magdalena River Valley and the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

[1] In the time before the Spanish conquest, the region of Yaguará was inhabited by the Páez.

[1] Modern Yaguará was founded on March 13, 1623 by Francisco Gómez Quintero, under the command of the governor of Neiva, Diego de Ospina y Medinilla.

[1] Fossils of the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) mosasaur Yaguarasaurus were found in the La Frontera Formation in Yaguará and the species was named after the town.