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Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá

Swiss international school in Bogotá, Colombia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ25051018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá (CHB; German: Schweizerschule Bogotá) is a Swiss international school in Bogotá, Colombia. It serves up to grade 12 (final year of Sekundarstufe II).

It was founded in 1949. As of 2016 it has 780 students.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá” as swiss international school in Bogotá, Colombia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Colegio, Helvetica and Bogotá can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as swiss international school in Bogotá, Colombia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25051018. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 2016.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá primary sources, Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá archive and Colegio research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.