The University of Los Llanos - Unillanos, is an academic institution of higher education of a public nature, of the national order, initially created as "Technological University of the Eastern Plains" - Utello, by Law 8 of 1974 and Decree 2513 of November 25 of the same year, issued by the Ministry of National Education.

Its creation was based on the regional need to have an institution that would train the human talent of what has been called the "half Colombia", made up of the department of Meta and the then called Police Stations of Vaupés, Guainía and Vichada and the Municipalities of Casanare and Arauca; characterized by their incalculable natural resources and by their agricultural and livestock vocation, in addition to their incipient economic, social and cultural development and a marked dependence on the central entity, in every sense of the word, since higher education was a privilege that only those people who had sufficient economic resources to travel to the capital of the country could have.