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Costa, Colegio Modelo de la

"Colegio Modelo de la Costa" was founded in 1993 in Cartagena de Indias, Department of Bólivar. Classes started on 5 February 1994.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is divided yellow-blue by a SW-NE diagonal with a black letter "M" in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 14 January 2009


COTECNOVA

"Corporación de Estudios Tecnológicos del Norte del Valle, COTECNOVA (English: Technological Studies Corporation of the North of the Valley) was established as Centro de Estudios Superiores (English: Center for Higher Studies ) or Centro Universitario del Norte del Valle (English: University Center of North Valley ), through Ressolution No. 3712 of September 21, 1971 by the Government of the Department of Valle. It is located in Cartago and it is a higher educational institution."
Sources: https://www.cotecnova.edu.co/index.php/quienes-somos/ and https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporaci%C3%B3n_de_Estudios_Tecnol%C3%B3gicos_del_Norte_del_Valle

Its flag is a horizontally and equally divided flag, with two colors (white on top and green on bottom) with the coat of arms in the middle, as seen here: http://www.cotecnova.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bandera.png (source: https://www.cotecnova.edu.co/index.php/quienes-somos). It measures 1.20 m wide by 1.50 m tall.

For additional information go to COTECNOVA (official website): http://www.cotecnova.edu.co/
Esteban Rivera, 3 August 2018


Creadores del Universo, Colegio

image by Ivan Sache, 28 November 2014

Colegio Creadores del Universo was established in February 2000 in Bogotá.
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided blue-green. Blue represents basic good acts and emphasis put on values. Green represents aspiration to contribute to the building of a better country.
Source: http://colegiocreadoresdeluniverso.com/personero.php?id=1
Ivan Sache, 28 November 2014


Cristo, Colegio de

image by Ivan Sache, 31 October 2011

Colegio de Cristo was founded on 31 May 1907 in Manizales (Caldas Department) by the Marist Brothers. The College originally succeeded the parish's school of the same name located in the Bishop's palace.
The flag of the institute, as used during the schools' parade held on 7 August 2000 in Manizales, is horizontally divided dark yellow-white-red.
Source: http://picasaweb.google.com/hergomez43/Desfiles7DeAgostoColcristoManizales20001#5047474028004615314
Ivan Sache, 31 October 2011


Cristóbal Colón, Colegio

"Colegio 'Cristóbal Colón'" was founded 23 years ago in Bogotá.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided green-white-blue with, in the middle of the white stripe, a yellow star surrounded by four red curved arrows. On the emblem of the institute, the four arrows link "science and culture", "knowledge", "technology" and "benefits" to "love" and "peace".
Ivan Sache, 15 January 2009


Cristóbal Colón, Institución Educativa

image by Ivan Sache, 06 September 2014

Institución Educativa Cristóbal Colón (CRISCOL) is located in Montería (Córdoba Department).
The flag of the institute is quartered blue-green-red-white, with a yellow star in the middle and an arch of six smaller yellow stars above it.
Blue is a symbol of the sea and of the air. White is a symbol of purity, peace, and tranquillity. Green is a symbol of the agriculture and forest resources, and of the  collective compromise for the preservation of the natural environment. Red is a symbol of love, joy, felicity, aspiration to live, and  sacrifice.
The central star represents the institute. The six smaller stars represent the six components of the institute  (Escuela Urbana mixta Cristóbal Colón, Colegio Municipal de  Bachillerato Cristóbal Colón, Colegio de Bachillerato Nocturno Pablo Neruda, Escuela Urbana Mixta "Pablo VI", Escuela Urbana Mixta "El Prado", and Escuela Urbana Mixta "Gabriela Mistral").
Source: http://noticriscol.blogspot.fr/p/criscol-divertido.html - Institute's online gazette
Ivan Sache, 06 September 2014


Cristo Rey, Centro Educativo

image by Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021

Centro Educativo Cristo Rey was established by the Society of the Divine Verb, a congregation established in 1875 by Arnold Janssen (1837-1909; canonized in 2003 by Pope John Paul II) that settled in Córdoba on 1945. Instituto Cristo Rey and Escuela Primaria Cristo Rey were inaugurated on 31 May 1959, incorporating Escuela Superior de Comercio Manuel Belgrano and Escuela Nacional de Comercio de Río IV.

The flag of Centro Educativo Cristo Rey is vertically divided red-white-green (1:2:1) with the school's coat of arms in the center. It was designed by Father Rubén Alderete after symbols he saw during a travel in Italy.
Red is a symbol of love and passion for knowledge signaled by the Bible, which determines all human and Christian knowledge.
Green is a symbol of freshness and youth.

The emblem is supported by two laurel branches, representing triumph.
The motto "Viriliter Age" (Act Courageously) comes from Psalm 26:14 ("expecta Dominum viriliter age et confortetur cor tuum et sustine Dominum", "Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord."
Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021


Cristo Rey, Escuela Normal Superior

image by Ivan Sache, 19 October 2018

Escuela Normal Superior Cristo Rey was established in 1961 in Barrancabermeja (Santander Department) by Paulina Albornoz Rangel, Director of Instituto Técnico Femenino. In 1966, the management of the school was transferred to the Hijas del Cristo Rey, a congregation established in Spain in 1876 by José Gras y Granollers (1834-1918); Mother Gloria García de Codes served as the Director until 1977.
http://escuelanormalcristorey.edu.co/
School website

The flag of ENS Cristo Rey is horizontally divided white-red with the school's coat of arms in the center.
http://escuelanormalcristorey.edu.co/index.php/institucional/simbolos
School website
Ivan Sache, 19 October 2018


Cristo Rey, Institución Educativa

image by Ivan Sache, 14 March 2017

Institución Educativa Cristo Rey originates in Instituto Popular Cooperativo Guayabal, established on 29 December 1967 by Ordinance No. 18 in the Cristo Rey borough, Guayabal, Medellín, Antioquia Department. The establishment of the institute was pushed by Father Gabrial Angerl Correa, who offered a garage owned by the parish as the first classroom, inaugurated in February 1968. The institute was renamed Liceo Departamental Mixto Guayabal in 1974.
Institución Educativa Cristo Rey was established on 27 November 2002 by Resolution No. 16,308, as the merger of Liceo Departamental Mixto Guayabal and Escuela Cristo Rey.
http://institucioncristorey.edu.co - Institute's website

The flag of the institute is horizontally divided yellow-green with the institute's coat of arms in the center.
https://institucioneducativacristorey.wordpress.com/author/iecristoreyblog/ - Institute's blog

The coat of arms of the institute was adopted in 1983 in a contest open to the whole educational community. The winning designed was submitted by Carlos Palacio and Jaime Murillo. The shield is surmounted by a condor with spread wings, as a symbol of liberty, holding in the claws a scroll inscribed with the motto "Libertad, Ciencia y Deporte" (Liberty, Science and Sports). The shield is surrounded by blue ornamentation, as a symbol of the clouds and aspiration to excellence.
http://institucioncristorey.edu.co/index.php/horizonte-institucional/resena-historica - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 14 March 2017


Cumbres, Collegio

image by Randy Yount, 17 May 2022
based on photo

Colegio Cumbres (Medellín) is part of an International Network of Schools that implements the educational model of the Regnum Christi Movement established on January 3, 1959
(sources: http://regnumchristi.org, https://www.rcstatutes.org/es/quienes-somos and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnum_Christi) with experience in 18 countries in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. "As the International Network of Schools, we are united by the purpose of forming people of integrity, Christian leaders who renew society. The center of our model is the human person, conceived as unique and unrepeatable, called to grow, help others and contribute to a better world.

Colegio Cumbres Medellín opened its doors in 1995 and with great pride saw the fruit of its educational mission in 2006 when its first generation graduated, today there are 16 promotions that have left our school, 1,020 graduates of integrity whose legacy is to be leaders who transform society."
Sources: https://www.cumbresmedellin.edu.co
https://www.cumbresmedellin.edu.co/nuestro-colegio
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbres_Institute

The flag is a horizontal white background with the logo in the middle, surrounded by the name of the school on top in black capitals, ""COLEGIO UMBRES" and below, the motto in Latin "SEMPER ALTIUS" (English: ever high) in smaller font on the bottom.
Esteban Rivera, 17 May 2022

Detail of logo

image located by Esteban Rivera, 17 May 2022
Source: https://www.cumbresmedellin.edu.co


Cundinamarca, Liceo Pedagógico

image by Ivan Sache, 05 September 2017

Liceo Pedagógico Cundinamarca was established in 1987 in borough Ubate, Soacha (Cundinamarca).
The flag of Liceo Pedagógico Cundinamarca is blue with a white cross superimposed with a broader, gray cross. Blue is a symbol of justice, passion, compromise, belonging, honesty, loyalty and charity.
The white cross is a symbol of the tree of life and of the way to supreme divinity. White is a symbol of the light offered by Jesus Christ and the church, and by good education, as well. White is also a symbol of kindness, innocence, purity, chastity, perfection, and faith. The gray cross is a symbol of integrity, obedience, firmness, vigilance, eloquence and self-control. White and blue are also the colors of the Blessed Virgin, especially of the Immaculate Conception, and the main symbol of the Christian religion.
The two crosses are superimposed to stress that Marian faith is implicit in the Christian faith. The gray color, which properly represents the Christian religion, is placed above the white one to highlight the hierarchy of the faiths.
Source: Manual de Convivencia 2014
Ivan Sache, 05 September 2017


Cundinamarca, Universidad Colegio Mayor

image by Ivan Sache, 06 September 2017

Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca was established in 1993 in Bogotá by Law No. 91, succeeding Colegio Mayor de Cultura Femenina de Cundinamarca (est. on 17 December 1945 by Law No. 48), renamed as Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in 1980 by Decree No. 83 and Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in 1988.
UCMC is composed of the Faculties of Administration and Economy, Social Sciences, Engineering and Architecture, Health Sciences, and Law.
Source: UCMC website
The flag of UCMC is prescribed by Agreement No. 27, adopted in 1985. The flag is horizontally divided green-white-red (2:1:2) with a white canton covering one third of the flag's length. The university's coat of arms is placed all over. Photo & Video
Green is a symbol of professional development, personal and institutional as well, aimed at progress and service, made of an harmonious balance between aspiration and reality.
White is a symbol of institutional ethics, integrating the ethical and moral components of harmonization with mystics, loyalty, responsibility and respect, together with the self affirmation of the institutional spirit and nature, as a perfect balance between the dimension of the service and the limits of perfection.
Red is a symbol of human development, implying vitality in action, commitment to work, fraternity and joy of the youth, which constitutes a compact unit, whose dynamics is projected with force and spontaneity to a dimension of commitment to service.
Source: UCMC website
The coat of arms of UCMC is prescribed by Agreement No. 24, adopted on 29 September 1995 by the Executive Board.
The open book placed on a pedestal and surmounted by a rising sun symbolizes the firms foundations of education provided at the university with energy, dynamism and a wide vision of the future.
The yellow scroll placed beneath the shield is inscribed with the three basic principles of the university: Ethics, Service and Knowledge.
Source: UCMC website
Ivan Sache, 06 September 2017

Blue flag

image located by Esteban Rivera, 12 August 2020
Source: http://www.itc.edu.co/es/noticias/bienvenida-estudiantes-extranjeros-sue18

Another flag is a dark blue horizontal one with the coat of arms in the mid-lower half (from top to bottom), with golden fimbriation around the flag. Above the coat of arms, there's an acronym in gold capital letters "UNICOLMAYOR".

Also regarding the naming of the institution, here's an additional remark: By Law 91 of 1993 a new name is set: "Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca" (English: Higher School of Cundinamarca University)
Source: http://www.unicolmayor.edu.co/portal/index.php?idcategoria=3846
Esteban Rivera,, 12 August 2020

Detail of seal

image located by Esteban Rivera, 12 August 2020
Source: http://www.unicolmayor.edu.co/portal/index.php?idcategoria=3846


Cundinamarca, Universidad de /a>(UDEC)

image by Ivan Sache, 27 December 2008

At www.unicundi.edu.co there is the official Coat of Arms of the Universidad de Cundinamarca (Cundinamarca University) and an isotype.  I think that the flag of the UDEC (acronym of the University) is the same flag as the Cundinamarca Department, but with the UDEC Coat of Arms in the center.
Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 7 October 2005

"Universidad de Cundinamarca" (UDEC) was recognized on 30 December 1992 by the Ministry of National Education (Decree No. 19530), succeeding, as a university, "Instituto Universitaria de Cundinamarca" (ITUC), recognized on 19 December 1969 by the Ministry of National Education (Decree No. 045).
The flag of UDEC, as shown graphically and described on the UDEC website, is white with the shield of UDEC in the middle. White represents the light that enlightens and guide us, as presented in the motto of UDEC, "Ex umbra in solem" (in Latin, "From darkness to light"). White also represents the purity of thought, ethics, equity, loyalty, integrity, obedience, dignity, eloquence and triumph, characteristics of the UDEC community.
The shield of UDEC, placed in the middle of the flag represents the commitment to permanently unite in the academic and scientific development the cultural tradition, inclusion, social projection and transparent governance to the service of the community.
The flag is one of the most representative symbols of UDEC, used in graduation ceremonies, inauguration of academic events and commemorations.
The graduates of UDEC shall take the oath on the flag. The flag shall be half-staffed after the death of students, professors or administrators of UDEC, and may cover their coffin.
The shield of UDEC is oval, with, on a golden background, a sun, symbol of life and source of all kind of existence, surrounded by 15 points representing the 15 provinces forming the Department of Cundinamarca. as a symbol of cultural tradition, inclusion, social projection and transparent governance to the service of the community, contrasting with the green disk forming the center of the shield and the green border framing it.
Gold represents wealth, strength, nobleness, faith, constancy, the sun and fire.
Green represents life strength, the natural environment, work, growth, serenity, abundance, victory and immortality. It is the colour of permanent production.
The sun is a symbol of life, eternity, greatness, with the green center meaning growth and future. Its location in the middle of the shield recalls us the commitment to achieve our dreams and reach our objectives. In the center of the sun is a stylized map of the department, outlined with the colours of the flag of the department (blue, yellow and red), recalling the origin of the UDEC. The green border represents our field protected by discipline, inflexibility and scientific knowledge.
A scroll placed under the shield bears the motto "Ex umbra in solem", in Latin, "From darkness to light", which can be philosophically extended to "From ignorance to knowledge".
Ivan Sache, 27 December 2008

Previous Symbols

image from www.unicundi.edu.co
Coat of Arms

At www.unicundi.edu.co there is the official Coat of Arms of the Universidad de Cundinamarca (Cundinamarca University) and an isotype.  I think that the flag of the UDEC (acronym of the University) is the same flag as the Cundinamarca Department, but with the UDEC Coat of Arms in the center.
Jairo Alonso Méndez Méndez, 7 October 2005

This is the former emblem of UDEC, possibly placed on a flag, but both the emblem and flag have clearly been superseded by the current symbols.
Ivan Sache, 27 December 2008


Custodio García Rovira, Instituto Nacional de Educación Media

image by Ivan Sache, 10 January 2020

INEM Custodio García Rovira, named for the patriot García Rovira (1780-1816), was established in 1970 in Bucaramanga (Santander).

The flag of INEM Custodio García Rovira is horizontally divided green-yellow.
Green is a symbol of hope and aspiration to democracy and freedom.
Yellow (gold) is a symbol of nobleness, knowledge, respect and honesty.

https://inembucaramanga.edu.co/index.php/page/item/simbolos1582204522
School website
Ivan Sache, 10 January 2020