Juana Gutiérrez de Piñeres

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Gender: F
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Biographical details

From Mompós, Colombia, she gave money, food and arms to the independence cause. She was among a group of women who were captured in 1816 and imprisoned for a long time in the vaults of Cartagena fort, below sea-level. Several of the women died during their captivity. (P. Forero, 62)

She was the aunt of Josefa Colorete de Velilla.

Life Events

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1816

She was imprisoned by the royalists in Cartagena.

References

Forero, Paulo E., (1972), Las heroinas olvidadas de la independencia

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