Political division of Cúcuta

The Administrative Division of Cúcuta, Colombia includes the municipal head, the small towns of Agua Clara, El Escobal, Guaramito, El Carmen de Tonchalá, and the small villages of Alto Viento, El Rodeo, La Jarra, Puerto León and Puerto Nuevo.

At the present time, the Municipality of Cúcuta is made up of two areas: the urban area and the rural area.

The urban zone is divided into 10 blocks, while the countryside is split into jurisdictions. The boundaries are maintained by the Secretary of Development to the community and the Office of Municipal Planning in accordance with the orders of Agreement Number 061 of August 18, 1994. A majority of the communes are represented at the Municipal Government by the Local Administrators, exerting the powers given to them in the agreement.

Each Commune must have their own J.A.L., which is made up of 7 dignitaries who are chosen by a public vote for an elected period of a year. The J.A.L. must provide support to the public services, such as environmental cleaning, public health, education, public works (both future and present), mass transit and community organization. They are able, in the case of public works, to indicate the priority of various works to the mayor, propose investment plans and must contribute these plans to the development of the Municipality.

The jurisdictions are:

Administratively, the Mayorship of Cúcuta is divided in two large groups: The Central Administration and the decentralized Beings. Central Administration classes those organizations that depend directly on the Mayor as Secretaries (Secretariats) or Departments. The Secretaries are administrative units whose main objective is the benefit of services to the community or the Central Administration. The Administrative Departments are units of a technical character. The Central Administration is composed of the General Secretary, Municipal Secretary, Secretary of Property, Secretary of Public Works, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Development to the Community, Department of Planning, Department of Transit, Municipal Treasury, Municipal Cultural Center, Legal Department and Internal Control.

The General Secretary is required to attend the mayor in the planning, organization, control and execution of his administrative tasks; to take care of the organization and the operation of the office of the mayor. Duties also include acting as secretary of the Council of Government and to watch the opportune fulfillment of their decisions, to ensure the operation of the mayorship remains lawful, to study, review and prepare the projects in agreements, resolutions, decrees and contracts pertinent to the mayorship.

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