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Cúcuta

American  
[koo-koo-tah] / ˈku kuˌtɑ /

noun

  1. a city in E Colombia.


Cúcuta British  
/ ˈkukuta /

noun

  1. Official name: San José de Cúcuta.  a city in E Colombia: commercial centre of a coffee-producing region. Pop: 883 000 (2005 est)

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Just a week ago, he said, his family were eating dinner at their home in Cúcuta, Colombia, with no intention of leaving.

From Los Angeles Times

“Migrants continue to leave Venezuela and they are not going to stop leaving because the reasons why they leave have not been solved. It continues to be a country with an economic and humanitarian crisis,” said Ana Karina García, a Venezuelan lawyer and director of the Fundación Juntos Se Puede, with offices in Bogotá and Cúcuta, in northeastern Colombia.

From Los Angeles Times

Guaidó told the AP the U.S. government intervened when he was threatened with deportation after he crossed the border and intended to take a flight from Cucuta, a Colombian city near the border, to Bogota.

From Seattle Times

Few Venezuelans are so lucky to find someone like Varner, who has traveled four times to Cucuta, a Colombian city on Venezuela’s border, to provide free medical care to fleeing Venezuelans.

From Seattle Times

A few days before Hernandez was due to return to L.A., a friend asked him to accompany her to the Colombia and Venezuela border, near a Colombian town called Cúcuta, Martinez said.

From Los Angeles Times