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Facts and Figures: 

World Fact Book: Colombia — A comprehensive list of basic information about Colombia from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Colombia: A country study—An online book on Colombia from the Library of Congress.

Languages of Colombia— An authoritative listing of the spoken living languages of Colombia by the SIL International’s Ethnologue site.
 

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Articles and Links: 

Lonely Planet: Colombia— An  overview of Colombiafrom Lonely Planet’s online magazine.

The LANIC Guide to Latin America – An excellent collection of links to history and culture,  housed at University of Texas (sponsored by Sun Microsystems)

Encarta on Colombia — A comprehensive overview of Colombia and its land, resources, climate, and animal life.

Colombia: Government— A comprehensive outline of the country, including government, history, culture and religion.

Columbian earthquake of 2000: photos and commentary

World News network: Colombia Post, at http://www.colombiapost.com/

Colombia:  country page at The BBC Network: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1212798.stm

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Oral Narratives from Residents of Greater Mecklenburg County, NC:

You may read Carlos Gongora’s narrative in both Spanish and English and hear it in Spanish. Javier Silva’s narrative is in English.

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Lesson Plans: 

For older students: civil war in Colombia, with lesson plan by CNN http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/lesson.plans/02/08/colombian.rebels/

For middle and high school students: a PBS discussion of the impact of Colombia’s civil war plus Colombia’s oil http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/educators/geography_colombia.html

For highschool students: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (to be taught in Spanish), at http://retanet.unm.edu/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/2110111   And in English, http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/

In Spanish, an excellent site with multiple links to activitities: http://www.eduteka.org/

Use The Latin World to discover more about South America and Colombia: http://www.latinworld.com/sur/colombia/index.html

Just for fun: how animals ‘talk’ in Spanish: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/spanish.html

For Hispanic Heritage month (September), check out the lesson plans and activities at Education World, http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson023.shtml

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