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Almirante Padilla, Colegio Militar

image by Ivan Sache, 28 March 2016

Colegio Militar Almirante Padilla (CMAP) is based in Soacha (Cundinamarca).
The institute is named for Admiral José Prudencio Padilla López (1784-1828), hero of the independence of Gran Colombia from Spain and founder of the Navy of Gran Colombia. Under his guidance, the Colombian Navy won its first battle in Tolù (1815) and the decisive battle of Lake Maracaibo (24 July 1823). Allegedly involved in the September Plot against Simon Bolívar (25 September 1828), Padilla was sentenced to death and shot. The admiral was officially rehabilitated in 1831 as an "innocent victim of tyranny".
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided white-blue. The colours represent purity and the universe, respectively.
SourceInstitute blog
Ivan Sache, 28 March 2016


Almirante Padilla, Institución Educativa

image by Ivan Sache, 12 August 2014

image by Ivan Sache, 12 August 2014

Institución Educativa Almirante Padilla (INEALPA) was established in February 1943 in Riohacha (La Guajira Department), as as Departmental institute. This was the first educational institute established in La Guajira. The institute was nationalized by Law No. 20 of 23 November 1947. The institute is named for Admiral José Prudencio Padilla López (1784-1828), who obtained on 1 December 1821 the surrender of the Spanish garrison of Cartagena and defeated the Spanish troops on 24 July 1823 at Lake Maracaibo. Involved in the September Plot against Simón Bolívar, Padilla was sentenced to death and executed.
The flag of the institute is shown in the institute's Constitution (PEI) as horizontally divided white-blue.
White is a symbol of peace and heavens.
Blue is a symbol of the beauty of La Guajira peninsula, made of the
union of the sea and the sky.
However, the institute's emblem, also shown in the Constitution, features the flag as horizontally divided blue-white, Photos of the flag in actual use seems to indicate that the two versions are used.
Source: http://inealpaquimica.jimdo.com/app/download/2098277718/PEI_INEALPA.pdf?t=1290522412 - Institute's Constitution
Photos: http://inealpaquimica.jimdo.com/ and http://jairojimenez2005.jimdo.com/actualidad-inealpistas-2011/
Ivan Sache, 12 August 2014


Alonso Carvajal Peralta, Institución Educativa

image by Ivan Sache, 03 December 2014

Institución Educativa Alonso Carvajal Peralta was established, as Escuela Normal Rural de Chitagá (Norte de Santander Department), by Legislative Decree No. 200 of 20 June 1958. The school was renamed Colegio Nacional de Varones by Decree no. 2,025 of 12 October 1971. Colegio Integrado Nacional de Varones was established in 2002 as the merger of Colegio Nacional de Varones, Colegio Departamental Integrado Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Escuela Urbana Ramón González Valencia, Escuela Urbana Trino García Peña and Núcleo Escolar Agrícola. Institución Educativa Alonso Carvajal Peralta was eventually established by Decree No. 823 of 30 September 2002.
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided green-white with a globe surrounded by a yellow ring in the middle. Green is a symbol of hope, natural environment, life and balance. White is a symbol of values, solidarity, tolerance, autonomy, responsibility, peace, purity, quality, transparency, sincerity and confidence. The yellow ring represents the mental resources, the Earth's resources and the shield of protection we should build around it.
Source: http://www.iealcarpe.edu.co/simbolos.html
Ivan Sache, 03 December 2014


Álvaro Echeverry Perea, Institución Educativa

image by Ivan Sache, 26 November 2014

Institución Educativa Álvaro Echeverry Perea is located in Cali (Valle Department). The flag of the institute is divided blue-green by a white descending diagonal stripe. In the middle is placed the institute's emblem.
Source: http://alvaroecheverrysaludable.blogspot.fr/ - Institute's blog
Photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cf-2P3X4Xyg/SworbMmF1DI/AAAAAAAAAGs/fl60k6Bd42c/S254/d.jpg
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2014


Álvaro González Santana, Institución Educativa Politécnico

image by Ivan Sache, 28 July 2018

Institución Educativa Politécnico Álvaro González Santana was established in Sogomaso (Boyacá) in 1988 by Municipal Agreement No. 23, ratified on 14 September 1090 by Agreement No. 9.

The school is named for Álvaro González Santana, lawyer and Professor of Economics at Lasalle Universidad, who was murdered on 4 May 1989 in front of Bogotá National Park. He was the father of judge Martha Lucía González, who had been "appointed" Consul of Colombia in Indonesia - that is, exiled - in September 1988, after she had required the arrest of the drug warlords Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha and of Fidel Castaño "Rambo", the chief of a a paramilitary unit. The judge found significant evidence of collusion between the drug barons, paramilitary groups, the official armed forces and state officials in the onset of the War Drug that had started on 4 March 1988, nine days before the municipal elections, when 20 farmers were murdered in Turbo (Antioquia).
https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/nacional/un-padre-asesinado-una-jueza-exiliada-articulo-490281
El Espectador, 3 May 2014

The flag of IEP Álvaro González Santana is described in the school's Manual de Convivencia as follows:

The flag is composed of a blue rectangle bordered by a white rectangle. White symbolizes the purity in thinking and being of all members of the Lasallian community, taking as life's fundamental principle the truth that resides in God's plenitude. The blue background, the color of the heavens, symbolizes transcendence and God's residence, where we all shall go. The institute's coat of arms is placed in the center of the flag.

The coat of arms is surrounded by two concentric circles that symbolize the universality of knowledge and the unity we shall build as the children of the same Father. Inside, on a yellow background, are shown the initials of the institute's name, a tribute to the scholar and martyr Álvaro González Santana. The logo features the five-pointed Lasallian star, a symbol recognized worldwide since the 18th century by all members of the Lasallian community, as the star that guided the King Magi to the Gate of Bethlehem, where they met the Savior. The star is also a symbol, a guide and a light that guides the Lasallians to meet God and achieve their own salvation; a light that enlightens darkness; and a shining post in the dark sky that invites us every day to walk in faith, to live in fraternity, loving each other as brothers, most of all those in greatest demand, to make all of our acts and attitudes compliant with justice, and to live in a compromise with the unconditional commitment of Lasallians to a better work.

https://www.politecnicoags.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MANUALDE-CONVIVENCIA-.pdf
Manual de Convivencia
Ivan Sache, 28 July 2018


Amagá, Institución Educativa Escuela Normal Superior

image by Ivan Sache, 27 September 2014

Institución Educativa Escuela Normal Superior Amagá is located in Amagá (Antioquia Department).
The flag of the institute, designed by Luis Alberto Muñoz Pulgarín, Miriam Cecilia Rivera, and Blanca Rosa Gómez Acevedo, was adopted on 10 September 1974. The flag is diagonally divided white-green by a black descending diagonal stripe.
White is a symbol of honour and light.
Green is a symbol of forest resources and hope.
Black is a symbol of rigour, discipline, and carbon.
Source: http://normalamaga.edu.co/simbolos_institucionales.html - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 27 September 2014


Amazónico, Institución Educativa Agroecológico

image by Ivan Sache, 19 September 2014

"Institución Educativa Agroecológico Amazónico" was created in the village of La Niña, Municipality of El Paujil, Department of Caquetá, on 3 December 2003 (Decree No. 603), through the merging of "Concentración John F. Kennedy", "Colegio San Luis Gonzaga" and "Collegio Agroecológico Amazónico" (founded on 4 December 1995, Decree No. 1003).
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided green-white-blue (1:2:1).
Ivan Sache, 30 January 2009

The updated version of the institute's website shows the flag with equal horizontal stripes.
Source: http://agroecologicopaujil.edu.co/institucional/
However, photos of the flag in actual use seem to indicate that the white stripe is slightly broader than the other ones [but not as broad as on the image previously reported].
Source: http://agroecologicopaujil.edu.co/blog/el-colegio-agroecologico-en-el-7-de-agosto/
Ivan Sache, 19 September 2014


Amazónico Buinaima, Institución Educativa Agroecológico

image by Ivan Sache, 25 September 2014

Institución Educativa Agroecológico Amazónico Buinaima is located in Florencia (Caquetá Department).
The flag of the institute, designed by Rosa Elena Murcia Musse, is of dimension 1.80 m x 1. 20 m. The flag is white with two forest green right-angled triangles placed at the bottom, and the institute's emblem in the middle. White is a symbol of social peace and institutional transparency. Forest green is a symbol of ecology and Amazonian exuberance.
The emblem of the institute is circular, as a symbol of unity and holiness, representing the institute's vision for Amazonian ecology. The name of the institute is written on the ring limiting the emblem. The emblem features a schematized palm tree, as a symbol of Amazonia, the world's lung, whose foliage is made of an open book ending with leaves at each end. The book is printed with the "institutional vision" on the left page and with the "mission" on the right page. The shoot of the palm tree is made of the coloured initials of the name of the institute, with the following meaning:
- "I", for "Institución", yellow, as a symbol of intelligence and knowledge;
- "E", for "Educativa", blue, as a symbol of ecological topics: the water and the atmosphere of Amazonia;
- "A", for "Agroecológico Amazónico", forest green, as a symbol of the Amazonian forest;
- "B", for "Buinaima", coffee brown, as a symbol of the soil, a central component of any ecological relation.
Beneath the palm tree, the word "BUINAIMA" forms small roots, in contact with a coffee brown sector, as a symbol of the soil in which stands the palm tree and which supports the Amazonian exuberance. The palm is ensigned with a rising sun, as a symbol of light, science, and, specifically, life in all its components, whose relations are the object of ecological studies.
Source: http://institucioneducativabuinaima.jimdo.com/ - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 25 September 2014


América, Colegio Gimnasio

image byIvan Sache, 3 January 2021

Colegio Gimnasio América was established on 9 February 1963 in Montería (Córdoba) by Maria Salcedo de Negrete, as Gimnasio Feminino América, subsequently renamed to Gimnasio América Mixto. The school was acquired in 1987 by Edith del Carmen Aguirre Casarrubia.
The flag of Colegio Gimnasio América is horizontally divided green-white with a white triangle placed along the hoist.
Green represents hope.
White represents mind greatness.
Red represents love and civism.
Source: school website
Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021


América, Institución Educativa

image by Ivan Sache, 13 May 2021

Institución Educativa América is located in Puerto Berrío (Antioquia).
The flag of IE América is horizontally divided (2:1:1) white-red-gray with a blue border all around.
White represents the institution's values.
Red means force and sacrifice of the members of the educative community to achieve his/her duty.
Gray represents knowledge, the academic, the scientist, the researcher and the technologist who allow the development of cognitive skills required to the achievement of the Colombian educative system.
Blue represents understanding.
school blog
Ivan Sache, 13 May 2021


América, Universidad de

image by Randy Young, 07 February 2016

"The Fundación Universidad de América was established as Escuela de Arquitectura (School of Architecture) in 1956. It is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in Bogotá "
Sources: http://www.uamerica.edu.co/la-universidad/historia/ and https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Am%C3%A9rica
For additional information go to: Universidad de América (official websites)
Its flag is a horizontal flag equally divided int two stripes, the top part being yellow and the bottom gree, with the logo in the middle, as seen here and here.
Esteban Rivera, 07 February 2016


American Community of Anti-Drug Intelligence, Regional School of the

image by Ivan Sache, 22 March 2019

Regional School of the American Community of Anti-Drug Intelligence (Escuela Regional de la Comunidad Americana de Inteligencia Antidrogas - ERCAIAD) is located in borough Fátima, Bogotá. ERCAIAD is commissioned to execute the proposals and compromises prescribed in the memorandum signed on 21 March 2012 by the Organization of American States and the Government of Colombia.

The flag of ERCAIAD is blue with the school's logotype in the center. The logotype of ERCAIAD is shaped like a circular seal surrounded by two golden circles. The border is inscribed with the school's full name, the acronym "ERCAIAD" being inscribed in the lower part in bolder letters. In the center is featured the Earth, blue and green, showing in full North, Central and South America. On the left side, an oil lamp represents enlightenment, as a symbol of knowledge and intelligence; on the right side is placed the coat of arms of the Organization of American States.
https://www.policia.gov.co/unidades/simbolos/3923
Ivan Sache, 22 March 2019


Americano, Colegio (Bucaramanga)

image by Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021

Colegio Americano in Bucaramanga (Santander) is managed by the Presbyterian Church of Colombia.

The flag of Colegio Americano is horizontally divided white-orange-blue with the school's emblem in the center.
White represents integrity and transparency of a life renewed in Christ.
Orange represents glee and the Gospel's light.
Blue represents the divine protection under a clam blue sky, the force of knowledge and the power of the heights. "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1).

The emblem is composed of a map of America, recalling the school's name, surrounded by blue sea, as the Sea of Knowledge. The map emerges from water as the result of a renovated education, surrounded by new waves representing the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

http://www.colegioamericanobga.com/micolegio/20002cx.php
School website

Photos
http://www.colegioamericanobga.com/micolegio/20003cx.php
Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021


Americano, Colegio (Lérida)

image by Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021

Colegio Americano in Lérida (Tolima) is managed by the Presbyterian Church of Colombia.

The flag of Colegio Americano is horizontally divided orange-blue with the school's emblem in the center.
Orange represents the Gospel's light.
Blue represents the water of the oceans that brought missionaries to the American continent and river Magdalena that allowed them to navigate northwards on canoes and fund churches and schools.

The emblem is composed of a map of America, recalling the school's name, surrounded by blue sea, as the Sea of Knowledge. The map emerges from water as the result of a renovated education, surrounded by new waves representing the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

https://colegioamericanolerida.wordpress.com/simbolos-de-la-institucion
School website
Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021


Americano, Colegio Superior

image by Ivan Sache, 12 October 2018

Colegio Superior Americano (CSA) is located in borough Las Américas, Bogotá.

The flag of CSA is horizontally divided yellow-white-green. Yellow represents abundance, spiritual resources and human touch. White represents peace, harmony, tranquility and purity. Green represents hope.
http://www.superioramericano.edu.co/index.php/colegio/simbolos
Ivan Sache, 12 October 2018


Americano Menno, Colegio

image by Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 14 November 2004

Colegio Americano Menno (La Mesa, Cundinamarca).
Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 14 November 2004