Tags: President.

José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri (March 20 1780 in Guayaquil – February 19 1847) Patriot and poet son of the Spanish Captain Don Miguel de Olmedo y Troyano and the Guayaquilean Ana Francisca de Maruri y Salavarría.On October 9 1820 Olmedo and others declared the city of Guayaquil independent from Spain. He was President of the Free Province of Guayaquil until it was united to Gran Colombia by Simón Bolívar against Olmedo’s will.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "José Joaquín de Olmedo"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.