After the footings are dug (footings here are called sapatos or shoes in English) they are filled up about 3/4 full with concrete. Then they dig a trench between each footing, form it with some pine boards and install rebar.
After the rebar is installed and connected to the rebar in the footing, concrete is poured. All the rebar from the different systems is then connected.
The picture above shows how the rebar from the footing, grade beam, and the future column are tied together.
Here is a good shot of the columns sprouting out of the grade beams. They are all interconnected and ready to be formed up.
To the upper left you can see a young guy with a pail of concrete. Almost all of the concrete was mixed by hand and then transported with 3 gallon pails.
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