Cucuta - City of Colombia

Cúcuta is a Colombian city, capital of the North Santander Department and located in the northeast of the country. Due to its proximity to the Colombian-Venezuelan border, Cúcuta is an important commercial center. The city has the constitutional category of Special District, conforms the most active international border in South America and it's connected by roads with Bogota, Caracas and Cartagena. Its air terminal, the Camilo Daza International Airport is one of the most traveled the country.

The city is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Puerto Santander, to the south by Villa del Rosario, Bochalema, and Los Patios, to the north by Tibú, and to the west by El Zulia and San Cayetano.

Cúcuta was originally a pre-hispanic settlement. It was entrusted to Sebastian Lorenzo by Pedro de Ursua as an encomienda in 1550. Juana Rangel de Cuellar founded Cúcuta on June 17, 1733, and donated a further 782 hectares. The village, centred on a church, grew considerably due to its strategic commercial location, and eventually became a city.

The first European who was in the North Santander territories was the German conqueror Ambrosio Alfinger, who in 1530 came from Santa Ana de Coro with a troops of aventurers and invaded the unexplored eastern region of the newly created Gobernation of Santa Marta.

The main objective of this congress was to unify the nations of the New Granada and Venezuela by the Constitution of Cucuta and thus create a huge state then known as the Republic of Colombia. Quito subsequently joined the Gran Colombia.

The mean temperature is high temperatures . There is a sharp contrast between the wet season and the dry season. The driest months are December, January, February and March; the wettest are April, May, September, October and November. June and July usually have significant precipitation, whereas August is sunny and windy.

The basic education and the high school education are in Colombian "Calendary A" for schools (from February to November.

Schools
Colegio Calasanz
Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
Colegio Instituto Técnico Nacional de Comercio
Colegio Salesiano
Colegio La Salle
Colegio Santo Angel de la Guarda
Colegio Santa Teresa


State Universities
Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander
Universidad de Pamplona
Universidad Libre de Colombia
Universidad de Santander
Universidad Antonio Nariño
Universidad Simón Bolivar