Scouting and Guiding in Colombia

The ASC is the oldest, founded in Bogotá in 1913, when Colonel Washington Montero, who was head of a Chilean military mission in Colombia and directed the Military School of Cadets of Bogotá, together with the Colombian Luis Cano, who knew the Scout Movement in Chile, began the history of the Movement in this country.

Journalist Miguel Jiménez López, who had been in England, was in charge of connecting the nascent experience with the British origins in publications that appeared in El País from June 20, 1913.

The founder of the Scout Movement, British General Baden-Powell, had knowledge of the nascent experience in the South American country, although he did not make himself present.

His wife, Olave Baden-Powell, did visit the country in the 1970s as an emissary of the ideals of the World Father of Scouting.

Currently, there are at least four nationwide operating Scouting and Guiding organizations in Colombia: French Guiana (France)