San Antonio del Táchira
San Antonio del Táchira is a city in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira.
San Antonio del Táchira is a city in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira. The busy highway across the Simón Bolívar International Bridge linking the cities of Cúcuta, Colombia, and San Cristóbal, Venezuela, passes through San Antonio del Táchira, making it an important gateway between the two nations. This city is the shire town of the Municipio Bolívar de Táchira and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 48,171.
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Worth seeing in and around San Antonio del Táchira
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Simón Bolívar International Bridge
The Simón Bolívar International Bridge is a 300-metre-long bridge across the Táchira River on the Venezuela–Colombia border, connecting the city of San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela with the small town of La Parada in Colombia. The first major city in Colombia after the border is Cúcuta.
100 m · bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela · Wikipedia - 02Historic church of Cúcuta
The Historic church of Cúcuta or Historic Temple of Cucuta is a historic site where the first constitution of Colombia was written and signed. It is located in the city of Villa del Rosario in the metropolitan area of Cúcuta, and very close to the Venezuelan border.
2 km · national monument of Colombia · Wikipedia - 03House of Santander
The Casa Natal del General Santander is the birthplace of the Colombian General Francisco de Paula Santander, and is where he lived until the age of 13. It is in the municipality of Villa del Rosario in Cúcuta, along the International Highway to Venezuela.
2.3 km · biographical museum in Colombia · Wikipedia
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Getting to San Antonio del Táchira
- Stations
- General Cipriano Castro International Airport, 2.9 km
- Maracaibo → San Antonio del Táchira328 km · quickest by road, 8h 13m · $34–47
- Valencia → San Antonio del Táchira554 km · quickest by road, 14h 56m · $60–80
- Barquisimeto → San Antonio del Táchira422 km · quickest by road, 10h 38m · $45–60
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No local-transport research exists yet for San Antonio del Táchira
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for San Antonio del Táchira. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to San Antonio del Táchira
San Antonio del Táchira is 12 km from Cúcuta, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Villa del RosarioColombian municipality of the department of Norte de Santander3.3 km