Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta
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- Cúcuta is a city of Colombia. See the main article here.
The Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta is a conurbation. The main city is Cúcuta and the municipalities are: Villa del Rosario, Los Patios, El Zulia, San Cayetano y Puerto Santander.
It was created by the Decree # 000508 of 1991. It is important to say that in the entrance of Cúcuta there is a monument to Virgilio Barco called "Monument to the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta".
The Mayor of Cúcuta has autority over all the municipalities of this conurbation as the Metropolitan Mayor, although these territorial beings conserve their autonomy (mayorship, council, etc..).
