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Spanish Living Language Calendars
Spanish Living Language Calendars



BOOKS ABOUT COLOMBIA

Footprint South American Handbook
Footprint South American Handbook


Tropical Nature
Tropical Nature:
Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central
& South America


Ancient South America
Ancient
South America


South American Table
The South American Table
(cooking)

South American Animals
South American Animals


Central & South America
Central
& South America


Atlas of the Amazon
Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon


Hands-On Latin America
Hands-On Latin Amerca: Art Activities for All Ages...


Teacher's Guide to a Walk in the Rainforest
A Teacher's Guide to a Walk in the Rainforest


Explorers South America
Explorers of South America


Spanish Arts & Literature FARCE Book Poster Set
Spanish Arts & Literature FARCE Book Poster Set



Teacher's Best - The Creative Process



Colombia Posters, Art Prints, Charts, Photographs & Maps
for social studies, history, geography, and language arts educators and home schoolers.


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Colombia Maps

Colombia Flag
Colombia Flag


South America Political Map, Art Print
South America
Political Map,
Art Print

Satellite View of Colombia, Photographic Print
Satellite View of Colombia,
Photographic Print

The Republic of Colombia (6º39'0"N 74º3'30"W) is located in northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea between Panama and Venezuela, and the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama. Colombia also borders Brazil and Peru.

Colombia is tropical along the flat coastal and eastern plains, and cooler in the eastern lowlands, highlands, and the Andes Mountains which are divided into three cordilleras, or ranges: the Occidental (western), Central, and Oriental (eastern).

The capital of Colombia is Bogota; Cartagena, Medellin and Cali are cities of note.

Colombia is the third most populous country in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico.



Galeras Valley, Colombia, Photographic Print
Galeras Valley, Colombia,
Photographic Print

Galeras stratovolcano near the city of Pasto, is one of Colombia's fifteen active volcanoes. Galeras is one of sixteen Decade Volcanos, those volcanoes considered most dangerous due to “their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas”.

Taking a Mud Bath in the Crater of Volcan De Lodo El Totumo Near Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia, Photographic Print
Taking a Mud Bath - Crater
of Volcan de Lodo El Totumo
near Cartagena, Colombia,
Photographic Print

Carved Stone Figures at San Agustin Archaelogical Park, San Agustin, Huila, Colombia, Photographic Print
Carved Stone Figures at San Agustin Archaelogical Park,
San Agustin, Huila, Colombia, Photographic Print

San Agustin and Tierradentro are pre-Columbian archaeological parks recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

A gold earring from Colombia's Sinu culture, Photographic Print
A gold earring from
Colombia's Sinu culture,
Photographic Print










Gold cargo recovered from 16th & 17th century shipwrecks.


The Colombian National Tree Palma De Cera, Armenia, Colombia, Photographic Print
Colombian National Tree
Palma de Cera
Photographic Print

The wax palm tree (Ceroxylon quindiuense, Palma de cera), the national tree of Colombia, is native to the Andean high altitude valley of Cocora.

The wax of the trunk was used to make candles, the wood was used to build simple water supply systems for poor farmers, the fruits were used as food for livestock, and the leaves were used in the Catholic celebrations of Palm Sunday. The dwindling population of wax palms was protected by law in 1985.


Harbor of Fishing Village Near Santa Marta, Taganga, Colombia, Photographic Print
Harbor of Fishing Village Near Santa Marta, Taganga, Colombia,
Photographic Print

Snowy Mountains in Aruaco Indian Hamlet in the Sierra Nevada De Santa Maria, Nabusimake, Colombia, Photographic Print
Arhuaco Indian Hamlet in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia,
Photographic Print

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Snowy Mountains) on the Caribbean coast are separate from the Andes.

Cauca River Valley, Colombia, Photographic Print
Cauca River Valley, Colombia,
Photographic Print

The Cauca River is a river in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central cordilleras (ranges) of the Andes.

Pollution from gold, coal and bauxite mines, sand mills, and city waste waters, have depleted the oxygen in the river.


City Centre with South-Eastern Suburbs Visible in Background, Bogota, Colombia, Photographic Print
City Centre with South-Eastern Suburbs Visible in Background, Bogota, Colombia,
Photographic Print

(4º35'53"N 74º4'33"W)

Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, was founded by Spanish colonists lead by conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in 1538. Bogata is the 3rd highest capital in South America (after La Paz and Quito) at 8,612 ft. (2,625 meters) above sea level.

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(10º24'0"N 75º30'0"W)

Cartagena, located on the Caribbean coast, is the fifth-largest city in Colombia as well a popular tourist destination. The name is from the Spanish city of Cartagena which is port located on the Mediterranean.

Cartagena's colonial walled city and extensive fortifications were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.

FYI - In the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone the character Joan Wilder was traveling to Cartagena but the scenes were filmed in Mexico. Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez sets many of his stories in Cartagena, though the city is unnamed in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera, the movie was filmed in the city.

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Jetties, Harbour and Skyline of the City of Cartagena in Colombia, Photographic Print
Medellin, Colombia,
Photographic Print

(6º14'33"N 75º34'30.49"W)

Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia, is in the Aburra Valley, is named after Medellin, Spain.

Medellín suffers from urban warfare set off by the drug cartels in the 1980s.


Hammock, Taquira, Boyaca Region, Colombia, South America, Photographic Print
Hammock, Taquira, Boyaca Region, Colombia, South America, Photographic Print

Hammocks, a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, and suspended between two points for swinging, sleeping, or resting, were developed in Pre-Columbian Latin America.

The word hammock comes from hamaca, a Taino Indian word which means 'thrown fishing net'.


Dancers, Fernando Botero, Art Print
Dancers, Fernando Botero, Art Print

Fernando Botero
b. 4-19-1932; Medellin

Fernando Botero has international recognition for his paintings, drawings and sculpture that have exaggerated proportions.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Farce" Book Poster
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Farce" Book Poster

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
b. 3-6-1927; Aracataca

Poster text: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most admisred writers in the world today. ...

Gabriel “Gabo” García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts”.• more literature posters

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez at Amazon
• attended Montessori school


Conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Poster
Conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Poster

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
b. 1495; Córdoba, Spain
b. 2-16-1579; New Granada

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada explored the northern part of South America, founding the city of Bogotá. His last expedition ended disastrously, and it is thought he was the inspiration for Miguel de Cervantes story Don Quixote (1605).

Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expediton of Conquest


World Religions - Christianity Wall Poster
Christianity,
Poster

World Religions -
Christianity Wall Poster
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
Luke 6:37

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