Cúcuta
Cucuta (San José de Cúcuta ) is the sixth largest city of Colombia and capital of the province of Norte de Santander. The city is located in the northeast of the country on the border with Venezuela.
Location
Cúcuta is located at about 320 meters above sea level and is 600 kilometers from Bogota and about 550 kilometers from Caracas in Venezuela. The city has an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. It is drained by the Río Pamplonita which opens in Puerto Santander in the Río Zulia. At the eastern edge of town, on the border with Venezuela, the Río Táchira, which flows in the North East of the city in the Río Pamplonita runs.
The eastern neighbor in Venezuela is Ureña. To the southeast lies, also in Venezuela, the San San Antonio, which together with Cucuta a small " free zone "; that is, that the inhabitants of both countries can move in both cities. Due to the vicinity of the border there in Cucuta few official stations. A large part of the gasoline sold illegally imported from Venezuela, where it is considerably cheaper. This has meant that there has appeared in Cucuta an informal trade of fuels. The fuel is frequently adulterated and polluted.
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History
Cúcuta was founded in 1733. Simón Bolívar in 1813 conquered the city of Cúcuta and sat here the march on Caracas continued. In the Rosary Church of Cucuta in 1821 convened the Constituent Congress of Gran Colombia.
On 18 May 1875, the city was largely destroyed by an earthquake, but was rebuilt relatively quickly. Cucuta in 1888 was connected to the railway network.
Since 1956 Cúcuta seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cúcuta. In 1962, the University Francisco de Paula Santander was founded in Cucuta. In addition, there is a campus of the University of Pamplona, which was established in 1960.
Population
1939 Cúcuta 59,000 inhabitants; 1990 already 532,000. In 2005 lived in the town of 742 689 inhabitants and 902,000 people in the Greater Cucuta.
Others
In Cúcuta is the Camilo Daza Airport ( IATA code: CUC), the (now LAN Colombia ), Copa Airlines Colombia and SATEA is served several times a day Avianca, Aires and connects the city with all the major cities of Colombia.
In Cucuta football A team Cúcuta Deportivo is native whose host cities is the Estadio General Santander. Cúcuta was one of the venues for the World Basketball Championship in 1982.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Francisco de Paula Santander (1792-1840), freedom fighter and first president of Colombia
- Fabiola Zuluaga ( born 1979 ), former tennis player
- James David Rodríguez Rubio ( * 1991), football player