1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Colombia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Cúcuta—777,106, America/Bogota, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cúcuta is GeoNames ID 3685533. Its recorded administrative path is Cucuta → Norte de Santander Department → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cúcuta occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Cúcuta ranks 710 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 6; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 105. Its 777,106 population value is 1.09 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 0.95 times the 816,326 regional median. Cúcuta sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Colombia population cohort. Cúcuta's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cúcuta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bucaramanga at 110.236 km with 581,130 recorded people; Valledupar at 296.047 km with 490,075 recorded people; Maracaibo at 319.535 km with 1,752,602 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 209.299 km. Compared with Bucaramanga, Cúcuta's recorded population is 1.34 times as large. Against Cúcuta, Bucaramanga follows Bucaramanga → Santander Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Cúcuta's. Against Cúcuta, Valledupar follows Valledupar → Cesar Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Cúcuta's. Against Cúcuta, Maracaibo follows Municipio Maracaibo → Zulia → Venezuela in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Venezuela cohort rather than Colombia, uses America/Caracas instead of America/Bogota, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Cúcuta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 733 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cúcuta's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3685533, the coordinate pair 7.9075 / 72.5049, country rank 6 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3688465 at 110.236 km bind Cúcuta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cúcuta's reference point is 7.9075° north and 72.5049° west. The IANA identifier America/Bogota is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Cúcuta's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cúcuta's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cúcuta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cúcuta, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Cúcuta's closest other entries in this atlas are Bucaramanga (110.236 km), Valledupar (296.047 km), Maracaibo (319.535 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.