Colegio Técnico Comercial Santa María Goretty
technical school in Cali, Colombia
Colegio Tecnico Comercial Santa Maria Goretty is a technical school located in downtown Cali in Colombia.
It started as a small primary school and has evolved into a technical high school with a specialisation in accounting. It takes its name from Maria Goretti (16 October 1890 – 6 July 1902), an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.
Notable pupils have included athlete Valeria Cabezas.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5142921. Authority coordinates are 3.432, -76.505. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1890 and 1902.
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