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Cúcuta
Municipality of Colombia in North Santander

Cúcuta

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.

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The city is located in the homonymous valley, beneath the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, on the border with Venezuela.

Get in

Getting to Cúcuta

  1. 01
    Camilo Daza

    A domestic airportwith flights to Bogotá, Medellín and other Colombian cities.

  2. 02
    Central
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    House of Francisco de Paula Santander
  2. 02
    Cathedral of Cúcuta
  3. 03
    Templo Histórico de Cúcuta
  4. 04
    Biblioteca Pública Julio Pérez Ferrero
  5. 05
    Casa de la Cultura
Do

Things to do

In the Av. Libertadores there are ample green zones and platforms that allow their visitors to walk and to contemplate the own nature of the Pamplonita River; this proximity to the shore has allowed that the custom has named it “Malecon” becoming a site of recreation par excellence.

Eat

Where to eat

Kokoriko Av. 0 Calle

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: StefiiDuran (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.