Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cúcuta, San José de

CÚCUTA, SAN JOSÉ DE, a town in the Colombian department of Santander, on the Rio Zulia, 35 miles S. of Puerto Villamizar. It is the third commercial town of the republic, a center of coffee and cacao cultivation. It was destroyed by earthquake in 1875, but has been well rebuilt. Pop. about 20,000. Rosario de Cucuta, to the S. E., 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.