Caro and Cuervo Institute

Instituto Caro y Cuervo
Caro and Cuervo Institute
Agency overview
Formed25 August 1942 (1942-08-25)
HeadquartersCalle 10 # 4-69
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Annual budgetCOP$7,668,382,909 (2011)[1]
COP$8,597,163,672 (2012)[2]
COP$10,081,710,055 (2013)[3]
Agency executive
  • Carmen Elisa Acosta, Director
Parent agencyMinistry of Culture
Websitewww.caroycuervo.gov.co

The Caro and Cuervo Institute (Spanish: Instituto Caro y Cuervo) is an educative centre specialising in Spanish literature, philology and linguistics, with a focus on research and promotion of reading in Colombia. The institute produces editions of Colombian authors and promotes the preservation of the national literary heritage. The institute was named after two well-known Colombian linguists, former President Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar and Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri.

The institute was created by order of the Colombian government in 1942. Its first assignment was the creation of the Spanish language dictionary, Diccionario de Construcción y Régimen de la Lengua Castellana.

Caro y Cuervo has been recognised and accoladed several times, receiving important prizes such as the Prince of Asturias Awards and the Bartolomé de las Casas Prize.

References

  1. ^ Colombia, Congress of (13 December 2010). "Ley 1420 de 2010" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (47, 922). Bogotá: 28. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 283). Bogotá: 14. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. ^ Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 640). Bogotá: 15. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.