GIL, SAN, or ST GILES, a town of New Granada, province of Scorro, 64 miles S.W. of Pamplona, on an affluent of the Suarez, here crossed by a stone bridge. San Gil was founded in 1690, and has manufactures of cotton fabrics and tobacco, with an extensive trade in agricultural produce. It contains several schools and a college. Pop. nearly 7000.