Cúcuta (col)

Cúcuta

Cúcuta ranks 4,308th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Neyagawa, Osaka, Yamoussoukro, and Braintree, Massachusetts. Memorable people born in Cúcuta include Virgilio Barco Vargas, James Rodríguez, and Fabiola Zuluaga. Memorable people who died in Cúcuta include Rolando Serrano. Cúcuta has been the birth place of many tennis players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players. Cúcuta is located in Colombia.

Cúcuta, officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is located in the homonymous valley, at the foot of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, on the border with Venezuela. It comprises an area of approximately 1119 km2, with an urban area of 64 km2 and a rural area of 1055 km2. The city has a population of 777,106 inhabitants, which makes it the most populous municipality in the department and the sixth most populous municipality in the country. Similarly, its metropolitan area has an approximate population of 1,046,347. Read more on Wikipedia