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EAFIT, Universidad


image by Eugene Ipavec, 4 September 2006


coat of arms
image by Eugene Ipavec, 4 September 2006

The Colombian University "Universidad EAFIT" Universidad EAFIT <www.eafit.edu.co> - This institution was established in 1960 by entrepreneurs of the city of Medellin called ANDI (Asociación Nacional de Industriales - National Industry Asocaition, <www.andi.com.co>) with the help of a American University. EAFIT stands for Escuela de Administración y Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico (Administration and Finance School and Technology Institute). The colors of the flag were taken from this American University. The cog wheel on the Coat of Arms has twelve cogs. They stand for the twelve Engineering Programs that were established. The pyramid is a traditional symbol for Administration, or a better business term: Management, introduced by Max Weber. And inside the foundation date, 1960.
Source: Graduation photographs taken back in 2004 by the company Foto Grisales, located in Medellín
E.R., 4 September 2006

Max Weber, together with Emile Durkheim, is considered one of the founders of modern sociology.
Ron Lahav, 22 February 2007

EAFIT University commemorated its 50 anniversary yesterday (http://www.eafit.edu.co/50/index.php). During the celebration of this date, a speech by the current Director of the institution, one can see a picture which shows a variant flag of EAFIT University on the left and the variant with coat of arms of the flag of the Department of Antioquia.
Esteban Rivera, 5 May  2010

This past weekend EAFIT University celebrated its 50th anniversary ( http://www2.eafit.edu.co/50/index.php  and http://www.eafit.edu.co/alcampus ), and I got the chance to see a
variant of the reported flag. It is the same color scheme (yellow over blue), the only thing different, is the alternate logo.
This flag can be seen also in a speech given by U.S. Under Secretary of State James Steinberg, held at this University.
Sources:
http://www.eafit.edu.co/agencia-noticias/historico-noticias/2010/octubre/Paginas/cooperacion-contra-drogas-continuara-colombia-estados-unidos-eafit.aspx (EAFIT University news report)
and http://www.cmi.com.co/?nt=53301 (CM& tv news).
Esteban Rivera, 26 October 2010


Eduardo Caranza, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2009

"Colegio 'Eduardo Carranza'" was created in Villavicienco, Department of Meta, on 2 December 1985 (Decree No. 022).
The institute is named after the poet Januario Eduardo Carranza Fernández (1913-1985). Professor and diplomat, Carranza was a precursor of the "Piedra y Cileo" (Stone and Sky) movement; he translated into Spanish poems by Verlaine, Éluard and Apollinaire.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is white with five green-red-green-red-green, diagonal stripes in the lower left and upper right corners and the monogram of the institute, made of the red letters "EC" outlined in green, in the upper left corner.
The monogram also appears on the emblem of the institute, placed on a white triangle with a green border.
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2009


Eduardo Fernández Botero, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 06 August 2014

Institución Educativa Eduardo Fernández Botero was established in Amalfi (Antioquia Department) by National Resolution No. 5,547 of 15 October 1960, as Colegio Sagrada Familia. The current name of the institute was adopted by Departmental Resolution No. 3,934 of 22 November 1989. The institute is named for the lawyer Eduardo Fernández Botero (1905-1974), elected Mayor of Medellín in 1946.
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided green-white-red.
Photos - Institute's website
http://eduardofernandez.edu.co/web/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3.jpg
http://eduardofernandez.edu.co/web/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/11.jpg
http://eduardofernandez.edu.co/web/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/14.jpg
Ivan Sache, 06 August 2014


Eduardo Santos, Colegio

"Colegio 'Eduardo Santos'" is located at Bogotá.
The flag of the institute, according to a photo shown on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided dark red-silver with the emblem of the institute in the middle.
he circular emblem of the institute shows on a white background two hands holding a tree and two grain heads - or rice panicles, surrounded by the black writing "CENTRO EDUCATIVO DISTRITAL" (top) / "EDUARDO SANTOS" (bottom). The emblem is bordered, from outside to inside, by a thin red ring, a thicker ring horizontally divided dark red-silver, like the flag, and charged with the writing "REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA" (top, white) / "CREADO IN NOVIEMBRE DE 1996" (bottom, black), and a yellow thinner ring.
Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009


El Carmelo, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 29 June 2014

Colegio El Carmelo is located in Bogotá.
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided white-coffee brown. White is a symbol of purity. Coffee brown is a symbol of austerity, and also the colour of the  Carmelite cloak.
Source: http://www.colegioelcarmelo.edu.co/quienes-somos/nuestro-colegio/escudo-simbolo-himno - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 29 June 2014


El Jazmín, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009

"Colegio El Jazmín" is located in Bogotá, in the borough of Puente Aranda, named after a bridge built in the 16th century on a marshy plot near river Chinua, then owned by Juan de Aranda.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is white with a green border.
Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009


El Mamón, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 08 September 2014

Institución Educativa El Mamón is located in the village of El Mamón, part of the municipality of Corazol (Sucre Department).
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided blue-white-red.
Source: http://www.ieelmamon.corozal-sucre.gov.co/es/inicio - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 08 September 2014


El Minuto de Buenos Aires, Colegio

"Colegio El Minuto de Buenos Aires" is located at Bogotá.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided white-light blue with six yellow stars placed in an ascending diagonal pattern, with increasing size from bottom to top.
Ivan Sache, 27 January 2009


El Porvenir, Colegio

"Colegio El Porvenir" is located in Bogotá.
The flag of the institute, as shown on a photo available on the website of the institute displayed between the flags of Colombia and Bogotá (with a small coat of arms), is horizontally divided white- green with a triangle horizontally divided yellow-red (recalling the flag of Bogotá) placed along the hoist and the emblem of the institute in the middle. The emblems seem to have the same size on the three flags.
The emblem of the institute is a red disk with a yellow border, filled with the stylized letters IED / EP. "IED" stands for "Institución Educativa Distrital", the official name of all the institutes of that kind located in the Federal District of Bogotá. However, most of them seem to prefer the old, simpler "Colegio" name, for common use.
Ivan Sache, 15 December 2009


El Recreo, Liceo Pedagógico


image by Ivan Sache, 04 August 2014

Liceo Pedagógico El Recreo is located in Bosa (Bogotá).
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided gray-white. Gray is a symbol of independence, self-sufficiency, and self-control. White is a symbol of light, surpassing, and knowledge.
Source: http://liceopedagogico.wix.com/elrecreo#!bandera/cxht - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 04 August 2014


El Rosario, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 24 July 2014

Colegio El Rosario was established in San Gil (Santander Department) by the Congregation of the Dominican Daughters of Our Lady of Nazareth. The congregation, founded by the Colombian nun María Sara del Santísimo Sacramento (1902-1980), was recognized locally on 30 March 1964, affiliated to the Order of St. Dominic on 15 April 1964, and approved by the Holy See on 2 February 1975.

The flag of the institute is horizontally divided white-blue. The union of the two colours is a symbol of the Eucharistic-Marian spirituality. White is a symbol of purity and cleanness of the spiritual life fed by the Eucharist, the Verb and the Christian Way of Life. Blue is a symbol of Mary.
http://www.colegioelrosario.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=15:simbolos-institucionales&Itemid=133 - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 24 July 2014


"Enriqe Low Murtra", Escuela Penitenciaria Nacional

The EPN (Escuela Penitenciaria Nacional "Enriqe Low Murtra", "Enrique Low Murtra" National Prison School ), is Colombia's formation institution for all the personnel in charge of custody in penitenciaries around the country, mainly employed by the INPEC. It was established by Decree No. 1817 of July 17, 1964.
Source: http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/historia-epn.html

Its flag is a green horizontal flag, crossed from top left to bottom right with the colors of INPEC, white/red/green/, as seen here. (first flag on the top left). The flag can also be seen here on their offical website.
Source: http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/identidad/120-bandera-epn.html
The flag was commissioned through Circular No. 31, of August 1984, by contest, issued by the (then) Dirección General de Prisiones (today known as INPEC), headed back then by Bernardo Echeverri Ossa. The official measures of the flag are: 3m long, 2m wide.
Source: http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/identidad/120-bandera-epn.html

The Coat of Arms is seen here.
Source: http://190.25.232.99/mdle/index.php?lang=en_utf8 ).
Additional information on the Coat of Arms can be found here.
For additional information go to: EPN (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 27 July 2012


Entrerríos, Institución Educativa

"Institución Educativa Entrerríos" is located at Entrerríos, Department of Antioquia.
The flag of the institute is shown graphically and described on the website of the institute.
The description says that the flag is made of three equal horizontal stripes green, white, and blue, while the drawing shows a flag horizontally divided blue-white-green.
Green represents the municipality of Entrerríos and its harmonious landscapes.
White represents peace and harmony.
Blue represents the institute, as on the emblem, where the blue quarter is charged with the name and educative motto of the institute, "Más que enseñar es formar" (Educating is better than teaching).
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2009


Envigado, Colegio Teresiano de


image by Ivan Sache, 28 June 2014

Previously reported flag:

image by Ivan Sache, 7 November 2010

I recently wrote that the Colombian Theresian educational institutes could share a common flag, horizontally divided white-blue. My assumption, based on two samples, was erroneous.
Colegio Teresiano de Envigado is one of the seven Colombian institutes chaired by the Community of St. Therese of the Child Jesus. It was founded in 1969 in Envigado (Department of Antioquia) by Sister Maria del Pilar Suárez, the then Superior of the Community in Colombia, as Colegio Teresiano Monteblanco. In 1999, the institute was renamed Colegio Teresiano de Envigado.
The flag of Colegio Teresiano de Envigado is presented on the institute's website as horizontally divided light blue-white-coffee brown, with respective proportions 2:1:1 - undoubtedly recalling the Colombian national flag. The three stripes, placed "from the Earth to Heavens", symbolize the Theresian spirit. Coffee brown represents integral education and the woman's representation in the Theresian values. Light blue represents transcendency. The three colors together represent prayer as a personal relation with God and the synthesis of the Theresian humanism.
Source: http://www.colegioteresiano.edu.co/pags/simbolos.htm
Ivan Sache, 7 November 2010

The flag of the institute is presented now on the institute's website with equal stripes.
Source: http://www.colegioteresiano.edu.co/simbolos
Ivan Sache
, 28 June 2014


Envigado, Institución Universitaria de


image by Ivan Sache, 14 Febuary 2004

"Institución Universitaria de Envigado" (IUE) was founded in 1992 in Envigado.   The flag of IUE is horizontally divided orange-white-green with the emblem of the IUE in the middle. The flag uses the colours of the municipality of Envigado, green and orange, together with white, representing the social responsability included into our institutional mission. The emblem of IUE is made of an "abstraction" of the letters "IUE" and two elements, the Earth representing projection all over the world, and an atomic nucleus [indeed a nucleus surrounded by electrons] representing technology, science and vision of the future.
Source: <iue.edu.co>, located by Dov Gutterman.
Ivan Sache, 14 Febuary 2004 and 18 December 2008


Esperanza, Colegio de la


image by Ivan Sache, 1 February 2009

"Colegio de la Esperanza" was founded on 2 January 1870 by Abel Mariano De Irisarri and Joaquín F. Vélez in Cartagena de Indias, Department of Bolívar. Since then, the institute has been ran by the De Irisarri family.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided white-green. White represents purity, harmony and peace. The whole flag represents the aspiration to be a pioneer educational institute.
Ivan Sache, 1 February 2009


Espinal, Fundación Universitaria del


image by Ivan Sache, 18 December 2008

"Fundación Universitaria del Espinal" (FUNDES) was founded by His Grace Abraham Escudero Montoya, Bishop of El Espinal (Department of Tolima). Canonically approved on 20 March 1997 by the Bishopric Chancelry (Decree No. 147A),  FUNDES was recognized by the Ministry of National Education on 23 July 2001 (Decree No. 1495).
The flag of FUNDES is described (but not shown) on the university's website, as horizontally divided white-yellow-green
White is a symbol of transparency and beauty and represents the goal of the university, peace.
Yellow represents the spiritual resources, and, together with white, the belonging to the (Roman Catholic) church.
Green represents hope and the greenness of the soil grown with rice.
Ivan Sache, 18 December 2008


Estanislao Zuleta, Institución Educativa Distrital


image by Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009

"Institución Educativa Distrital 'Estanislao Zuleta'" was inaugurated in February 1990 as "Escuela Distrital Rural 'La Reforma'". The institute is named after the noted Professor of Philosophy and writer Estanislao Zuleta (1935-1990).
The flag of the institute, according to a photo and the description available on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided blue-white-blue. The three stripes represent the universe, peace and the Colombian seas, respectively.
Ivan Sache, 16 January 2009


Exalumnas de la Presentación, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 16 September 2014

Escuela Exalumnas de la Presentación was established in 1963 in the Jordán borough, part of the municipality of Ibagué (Tolima Department), by former students of Colegio de la Presentación del Centro de Ibagué, led by Sister Elisa Londoño - Provincial Superior of the Community of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation - and Sister Mabel Jaramillo, in charge of the management of the former students. The congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation was founded in 1695 by Marie Poussepin (1653-1744; beatified on 20 November 1994 by Pope John Paul II). Colegio Exalumnas de la Presentación was established in October 1981. Institución Educativa Exalumnas was eventually established by Departmental Resolution no. 751 of 26 July 2002, as the merger of Concentración Escolar Exalumnas de la Presentación and Colegio Exalumnas de la Presentación.
Source: http://www.exalumnaspresentacion.edu.co/ - Institute's website
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided king blue-white-king blue. Blue is a symbol of harmony and simplicity. White is a symbol of purity, truth, and transparency.
Source: http://www.exalumnaspresentacion.edu.co/web/Simbolos-Institucionales.php - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 16 September 2014

It may be that the uniqueness is in the Royal Blue shade, but otherwise I'm tempted to say that I've seen this one before. I don't even think it's a unique case. I wonder if there's no intention to be unique or whether there's merely a lack of information on other flags.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 September 2014

Since this is a school sponsored by alumni from the school La Presentación, my question is regarding La Presentación: the flag reported for La Presentación is from a school located in Duitama. Well, there's another school called La Presentación in Medellín, so I wonder if these two, plus the alumni sponsored school, have the same flag pattern?
Esteban Rivera, 17 September 2014

Since the size of the available sample of flags form Colombian institutes is growing and growing, it is indeed relevant to look at flag patterns and similarities. There appears to be "some" patterns related to the congregations that managed some schools. Unfortunately, there is, usually, little available knowledge on the  exact relations between these schools, therefore we can only infer some groupings, as Esteban did.
Moreover, the big size of the sample and the relatively limited  pattern variation - several flags are horizontally divided into two or three stripes - automatically results in the use of similar flag by not necessarily related institutes. This appears to be the same as for some departmental and municipal flags.
Another puzzling issue is the use of the institute's emblem on the flag. It is sometimes prescribed but not shown on flags in actual use, or not prescribed but actually added to the flags in use. When photos are available, it i not infrequent to have flags significantly different from what is prescribed / described / illustrated on websites.
Ivan Sache, 17 September 2014


Externado Patria, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 09 September 2014

Institución Educativa Externado Patria is located in Medellín (Antioquia Department).
The flag of the institute is in dimensions 0.70 m x 1. 40 m, with a staff of 1.10 m in length. The flag is made of three parts, an upper blue stripe and two, lower,  red and yellow stripes. The colours are those of the national flag.
Source: http://ieepcedeco.blogspot.fr/2011/04/escudo-y-bandera-de-nuestra-institucion.html - Institute's blog
Ivan Sache, 09 September 2014