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5 unusual facts about Cúcuta


Breyner Bonilla

Breyner Bonilla Montaño (born 21 July 1986 in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander) is an Colombian professional football player who plays as central defender for Deportes Tolima.

Bryan Camilo Reyes

Bryan Camilo Reyes Silva (born August 17, 1992, in Cúcuta, Colombia) is an Colombian footballer currently playing for Audax Italiano of the Primera División in Chile.

Dorila Antommarchi

Dorila Antommarchi de Rojas (born 1850s, Cúcuta, Colombia) published numerous poems and sometimes used the pseudonym Colombiana.

Ramiro Suárez Corzo

In the mid 1970s he then moved to Cúcuta where he worked in construction, security guard, cab driver and neighborhood community leader.

Yulián Anchico

José Yulián Anchico Patiño (born 28 May 1984 in Cúcuta) is a Colombian football midfielder.


1875 Cúcuta earthquake

That day, the city of Cúcuta and the town of Villa del Rosario, in the Norte de Santander department (Colombia) and the municipalities of San Antonio del Táchira and Capacho, Táchira State (Venezuela) were destroyed totally by this catastrophic earthquake.

Arab diaspora in Colombia

They later expanded to other cities and by 1945 there were Arab Middle Easterners moving inland like Ocaña, Cúcuta, Barrancabermeja, Ibagué, Girardot, Honda, Tunja, Villavicencio, Pereira, Soatá, Neiva, Buga, Chaparral and Chinácota.

Blas Pérez

In 2007 Cúcuta and Blas Perez made their debut in Copa Libertadores, in which Blas scored 8 goals, including two against Argentina's Boca Juniors.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

Pablo Ledesma

Ledesma also scored a clever close-range flick against Colombia's Cúcuta in the Semi Final 1st leg and a brave header at the end of the 1st Leg of the Final against Gremio.

Ramiro Suárez Corzo

Suárez as Mayor of Cúcuta was supposedly managing the football (soccer) team Cúcuta Deportivo indirectly overriding the president of this club Angel Uriel Garcia.

Rodrigo Granda affair

On 13 December 2004, Rodrigo Granda, a member (the "foreign minister") of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or "FARC"), was captured by individual Venezuelan officials in Caracas, Venezuela, and transferred to Cúcuta, Colombia (a departmental capital on the two nations' common border), where he was arrested by the Colombian authorities on 14 December.


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