fundation and location (simple past)

• New Zealand was founded in the year 950 d.c, for the navigator Polynesian Kupe that baptize her as Aoteroa (land of the long white cloud)

• In the country was found gold at the end of the 19th century, this generated prosperity and safety. This way His reputation like nation compromised with the reforms of equality consolidated with social changes, as the right to vote of the woman, the social safety and the creation of infantile services. In 1947 the independence of new Zealand was recognized formally.

• New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean South approximately to 1,600kms of the south-east of Australia

• It is shaped by two smaller principal and different islands.

• Both the Island North and the Sur are divided in Counties and unitary Authorities.

• Island North (counties)
  
  • Northland
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
  • Bay of Plenty
  • Taranaki
  • Hawke's Bay
  • Manawatu - Wanganui
  • Wellington
  
  
  • Island South (counties)
  • Westcoast
  • Canterbury
  • Otago
  • Southland

Colombia conformed as state in 1810 from the Viceroyalty of the New Granada, colony of the Spanish Empire that had been founded in 1550. In 1886 takes definitively his current name of Republic of Colombia.


When the Spanish explorers came to the area on the year 1500 entered the region to new demographic factor that changed completely, then existed a development between the indigenous peoples, the Europeans found to dispersed people. The diversity of languages, religions and the geographical position was in disadvantage in order that the native ones were confronting the invaders.