Cúcuta

Cúcuta, SAN JOSÉ DE, a town in the Colombian department of Santander, on the Rio Zulia, 35 miles S. of Puerto Villamizar by rail. It is the third commercial town of the republic, a centre of coffee and cacao cultivation. It was destroyed by earthquake in 1875, but has been well rebuilt. Pop. 13,000.—ROSARIO DE CÚCUTA, to the SE., was the seat of the first Colombian congress in 1821, and the birthplace of the patriot General Santander (1792-1840). It has large plantations of coffee and cacao. Pop. 6000.