COLOMBIA

JOSHUA MCLEAN
1/27/10
4 PERIOD
 GEOGRAPHY
 COUNTRY: Colombia
 Capital: Bogota
 Location: South America; Western
Hamisphere
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 Religion
 90% of the people belong to the Roman
catholic church, protestant and other
Christian organization have small but
growing membership
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 Traditional Dress
 In Colombia clothing
is conservative
clean and well kept.
Men wear suits,
Whites shirts and
ties and women
often wear
comfortable
dresses and young
people dress
casually.
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 Customs/Traditions
 Men commonly shake
hands with
everyone when
entering a home,
greeting a group or
leaving and the
women kiss each
other on the cheek
if they are
acquainted but
offer a verbal
greeting or
handshake
otherwise. And in
Colombia eye
contact and
standing close are
imported to them
 Typical Food
 For breakfast they
have juice,
coffee, hot
chocolate,
fruit ,eggs
,bread , or
changua potato
and egg soup)
And lunch start
between noon
and 2pm they
eat, soup, rice,
meat and
potato and ice
cream is a
Sunday treat.
 Family
 Each family members share their good
fortunes with one another. Divorce is
relatively uncommon the father
usually provides for his family and the
mother is responsible for most
domestic duties
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 Housing
 People below the
poverty line often
live on tugurious
small lots
surrounded by
cardboard walls
reinforced with
metal shingles, low
income families
typically live in
single or multistory
buildings and high
income families
generally live in
housing complexes
 Dating/marriage
 Datingbegins around age 14 or 15 the
popular activities include, parties,
restaurants, movies and discos or
shopping and at weeding the groom
may hire a small band to serenade
the bride
 Holidays, Festivals,
Celebrations
 Colombians enjoy 18 official national
holidays 12 of with are Christian
celebrations cities across the nation
celebrate carnival held just before the
beginning of lent with colorful
parades and floats
 Government
 The democratic
government
of Colombia is
similar to that
of the United
State in that it
has 3
branches of
power a
president,
vice president
and legislation
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 Economy
 Colombia has maintained a fairly
healthy economy on the strength of
its exports products produced in the
country that are sold to other nations.
People in Colombia make a living by
farming
 Education
 It is very religion focused, Spanish is the
language of education, children below
age 6 go to pre school and the literary
rate is around 92.50% where females
have a higher percentage over males.
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 Climate/ Weather
 Varies from hot
in low land
plains to the
east steamy
and tropical in
rain forests in
south and
along coast
cooler in the
mountains the
dry season
runs from
December to
February while
the rainy
season
 Landscape
 Coastalseashore, plains and high
mountain
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 History
 The Colombia thrived producing
sophisticated arts, stone and gold
work Simon Bolivar established the
new grain Colombia republic from
which renezuela and Ecuador
withdrew in 1830
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 Currency
 2,363 Colombian pesos= 4.5 $1
workers are paid in pesos Colombia
currency one hundred centavos equal
one peso
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