The transport in Colombia and Mexico:

The Mexican rail system, which is nationalized, has 26.656 km of roads. The longitude of the highways is 349.038 km (2003), of which 34% is paved. Several freeways cross the country, among them four main routes that go from the frontier with United States until the capital of the Mexican Republic that are part of the net of the Pan-American highways. The air services have been developed in an intensive way and the country has more than 1.700 airports and landing hints. The main air companies are Aeroméxico and Mexicana de Aviacion. The merchant fleet of the country is composed by 718 ships, with a capacity of 1.099.800 registered gross tons.

El terreno irregular de Colombia obliga a que la construcción de carreteras y vías de tren sea muy costosa. Colombia cuenta con 3.154 km de vías férreas, nacionalizadas a partir de 1954 y actualmente en desuso, excepto para el transporte de mercancías. La mayor parte de estos ferrocarriles nacionales eran líneas que llegaban al río Magdalena, la principal arteria de transporte del país durante el siglo XIX y buena parte del siglo XX, pues era navegable a lo largo de casi 1.100 km a partir de su desembocadura. Las carreteras suman 112.988 km y comprenden una parte de la autopista que une Caracas, la capital venezolana, con Quito, la capital de Ecuador, a través de Bogotá y de otras poblaciones colombianas. En Colombia el transporte aéreo comenzó en 1919 y actualmente varias compañías nacionales e internacionales sirven al país. En 1946 Colombia, Venezuela y Ecuador acordaron establecer la Marina Mercante Gran Colombia, aunque Venezuela se retiró en 1953. Los principales puertos son Buenaventura, Tumaco, Santa Marta, Barranquilla y Cartagena.

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Educational legislations of Colombia and mexico:

The Educational System in Colmbia understands the formal education that is imparted in periods and it drives to the obtaining of academic degrees, and the non formal education that is imparted without subjection to periods of regulated sequence and it doesn't drive to any grade.
The formal education understands the following progressive levels:
- Education preescolar
- Basic education (primary and secondary)
- Half education
- Superior education
The education preescolar refers to children smaller than 6 years of age and it will be obligatory, minimum in one year (5 year-old age).

The system in Mexico offers the educational service in two big modalities: escolar and open. The escolar service is dedicated to provide education by means of the attention to students' groups that converge daily to an educational center of agreement with the official educational calendar. The service non escolar is dedicated to provide the opportunity to continue or to conclude its education to the students that cannot incorporate to the services. This education is imparted through pedagogic consultantships, without the students have to converge daily to a school. The students are held to a series of exams to certify the advance in the execution of the program.

The system is compound for six educational levels:

• The initial education
• The education preescolar
• The primary education
• The secondary education
• The half superior level
• The superior education

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Comparison between education in Mexico and Colombia

Education in Mexico is divided in the following levels: Basic education, middle education and high education and this have studies in preschool, elementary school, high school, vocational technical, baccalaureate, BA, normal and postgraduate while education in Colombia consists in: Preschool, elementary school, high school and then the young people start the university to become professionals.

The regulatory institution of education in Mexico is Secretariat of Public Education while in Colombia the regulatory institution of education is called Ministry of Education.

Usually in both countries children start the school at the age of 5 years old.

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Comparison between transport in Mexico ad transport in Colombia

In Ciudad de Mexico the main system of transportation is the meter while in Bogotá is the “Transmilenio”. This is a fast and very efficient system of red and large buses that have routes and points where stop it.

Unlike Mexico, in Colombia almost all buses are of the same kind. Like in Ciudad de Mexico, in Bogotá the buses have routes for circulate.

Like Mexico, Colombia has “taxis” and other small systems of transportation like the “Sidauto” (big and light blue buses”) that too circulate for specific routes.

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COMPARISON BETWEEEN THE EDUCATION IN MEXICO AND COLOMBIA BY VIVIANA CALVACHE

School grades

Level / Grade, Age (Years old)

• Pre-School
• Kindergarden5–6; beginning of "basic"
• Primary School
  1st Grade, 6–7
  2nd Grade, 7–8
  3rd Grade, 8–9
  4th Grade, 9–10
  5th Grade, 10–11
  6th Grade, 11–12
• Secundaria
  First grade, 12–13
  Second grade, 13–14
  Third grade, 14–15
• Preparatoria
  First Semester, 15; middle school and high school education .
  Second Semester, 15–16
  Third Semester, 16
  Fourth Semester, 16–17
  Fifth Semester, 17
  Sixth Semester, 17–18
  There are some "2- year B
• University; beginning of "higher" education
  • Four or five years leading to a Licenciatura
• Postgraduate
  • Two to three years leading to
  • Three or more years after the completion
• 
  Education in Colombia

comprehends the formal and non-formal education
Formal education is composed of nursery school, elementary school, high school and technical instruction and college education.
The basic goal expected for the average citizen is of 11 grades (elementary school and mid highschool).
The covering of basic education for the state institutions is about 50%.
The private institutions cover the other 50% and most of the technical and university formation, due to the scarcity of public resources destined to education.

transport of Mexico

In Mexico City operated four different types of taxis:

• The yellow and white taxis (usually branded Volkswagen), who have taximeter.
• Taxis orange ( "Site"), available at taxi ranks, a little more expensive than the yellow and white.
• Tourism-type taxis, which stop at the door of the big hotels and have no meter.
• Taxis "Peseros" (green and white), which shared vehicles are performing fixed routes. La tarifa dependerá del recorrido realizado. The fare will depend on the route done.

Bus

City buses

In Mexico City there is a vast network of buses and trolleybuses. Trolleybuses have recently been modernized and are flat rates. In Guadalajara there is a system of state buses and trolleybuses, and there are also private bus services.

Long distance buses

This is the most common means of transport in Mexico. The vehicles for long journeys are comfortable and modern. Sin embargo, los buses rurales suelen estar en bastante mal estado. However, rural buses are usually in pretty bad shape.


by VIVIANA CALVACHE

Comparison between the education in EEUU and Colombia

the study in EEUU is one the best of the world in this state there are three types of school there are schools publics, privates and home school, the mos the people study in the public school because is very good. also in this country you can find the best universities of the world for example: Harvard, Stanford etc in the harvard university there are many faculties how: law, medicine, arts, (business that is very famous in the world), besides also there is Technical careers, how: program in Engineering,Infirmary(Nursing) etc many people studie in this careers.

While that in Colombia there are two types of school : public and private, in Colombia is best the private school while in EEUU the puclic school is one of the better in Colombia also there are univesties very good for example: the nacional universitie and many more, these countries have something in common is the technical careers the most of people in Colombia sudie in this careers.

by: Juan Diego Pérez