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ID: 1023737
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023737
Record Type:
administrative
Cúcuta (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 55 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 072 31 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -72.5167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in N Colombia near the Venezuelan border on the Colombia-Venezuela highway, at the heart of a livestock & agricultural zone; destroyed by earthquake in 1875 but has since been rebuilt.
Names:
Cúcuta
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San José de Cúcuta
(
C
,
V
)
............
since 1793
San José de Guasimal
(
H
,
V
)
............
1733-1793
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Colombia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Norte de Santander
(department) (
P
)
................
Cúcuta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1733
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cúcuta..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
51
San José de Cúcuta..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302
San José de Guasimal..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 777
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 777
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
51
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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