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Properly speaking, the origins of the formation of Cucutilla have not been verified because the archives of the municipality and the parish have disappeared.

But from studies made regarding his historical research, it is said that the Chitarera aboriginal tribe, inhabitant of the region, was located especially at the point of Cucutilla, being the Indian Chapiro chief there. Regarding the name, if one thinks that these aborigines maintained very close relationships with the chieftain Cúcuta, the hypothesis that it is a diminutive of Cúcuta cannot be ruled out and we could at the same time suppose that it was a tribute to the man who called those regions with respect to the founder, although it has not been verified by any means, tradition has taught that it was Camilo Torres Delgado and that it took place in 1780.

It was erected a municipality in 1812 elevated to the category of parish in 1814. According to oral tradition, the liberator Simón Bolívar passed through the town several times and in one of them he spent the night, a fact that is remembered with commemorative plaques.





Full Name: Cucutilla

Foundation: 1780

Founder: Camilo Torres Delgado

Population: DANE 2005 Census: 8,447 inhabitants.

Altitude: 1,277 meters above sea level.

Extension: 373 Km2

Climate: 21 degrees C.



Distance to Cúcuta: 101 Km

Geographic coordinates: Longitude west of Greenwich 72º 47´, North latitude 7º 33´

Limits: North: Arboledas,

South: Mutiscua and Santander department,

East: Bochalema, Pamplona and Pamplonita,

West: Groves.

Administrative Division: Composed of 2 townships and 26 villages

Rivers: Cucutilla, Zulasquilla and the Honda, Grande, Pedregal, Caracolí, Crucecitas streams.

Center Region

Economy

Agriculture is its main economic line with products such as Banana, sugar cane and coffee and fique being the main producer of the department of this last product.

The livestock sector, its main line is bovine production, followed in importance by pigs, mules, rabbits and poultry.





Holidays:

December 8: patron saint festivities

February 2: Virgen de la Candelaria

June: peasant cultural and sports festival

November: creativity fair

Tourist sites:

Recreation and sports center

Zulasquilla Bridge

House of Culture.

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