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San Cristóbal

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San Cristóbal, city, Dominican Republic

San Cristóbal (sän krēstō`bäl), city (1993 pop. 88,376), S Dominican Republic, on a Caribbean coastal plain. The city was founded in the late 16th cent. The first Dominican constitution was signed in San Cristóbal in 1844. The dictator Rafael Trujillo Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas (räfäĕl` lāōnē`thäs tr
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 was born there in 1891. Nearby is an agricultural institute.

San Cristóbal, city, Venezuela

San Cristóbal, city (1990 pop. 220,675), capital of Táchira state, W Venezuela, in a mountainous region near the Colombian border. It is a commercial, transportation, and industrial center. Textiles, leather products, cement, and tobacco are produced, and coffee, sugar, pineapples, and corn are exported. San Cristóbal was founded in 1561 and was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1875.


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