Meta is a
department of
Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the
Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the
Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known as the
Llanos. Its capital is
Villavicencio. The department has a monument placed in the very geographic centre of Colombia, at a place known as Alto de Menegua, a few kilometers from Puerto López.