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The Scout Movement in
Spain consists of about 30 independent associations, most of them active on the regional level. Due to the
regionalisation of Spain, even the larger nationwide associations are divided into regional sub-associations with individual emblems, uniforms and Scout programs.
Associations
Spanish Scout associations are divided in three organizational groups:
Independent organizations, including a number of members of the smaller international umbrella organizations.
WOSM member organizations
The
Federación de Escultismo en España is the National Scout Organization within WOSM. It serves 58,744 Scouts (as of 2004) and consists of three member organizations:
Acció Escolta de Catalunya (interreligious; also affiliated to ASDE; WOSM-Member only)
Escoltes Catalans (secular)
Minyons Escoltes i Guies Sant Jordi de Catalunya (Catholic).
WAGGGS member organizations
Spanish Guiding is affiliated to WAGGGS via the
Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España, an umbrella federation serving 7.154 members (as of 2003). The Comité has two member organizations; both are again umbrella federations:
Scouts Hispanos was a Spanish
CatholicScouting organization created in
Madrid by the priest Jesús Martínez in 1934, which had some social impact and was adopted in other cities, but was cut short with the advent of the
Spanish Civil War.[1]
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^"Erascout" (in French). Scouts et Guides de France. Archived from
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