Dolores Rivas Quijano de Umaña

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Unknown

Biographical details

From Bogotá, she was the daughter of José Nicolás de Rivas and Ventura Quijano. Her grandparents were Miguel de Rivas and Rosalía Zailorda and Ignacio Quijano and Catalina Venegas. She later married Luis Umaña Barrero. On August 1819 she was among a group of 20 young women from distinguished families presented to Bolívar when he arrived at Bogotá in triumph. (Monsalve, 218, 222)

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1819

In August 1819 she was among a group of women presented to Bolívar.

References

Monsalve, José D, (1926), Mujeres de la independencia

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