Central Cemetery of Bogotá

Central Cemetery of Bogotá
Central Cemetery of Bogotá
Details
Established	1836
Location	Bogotá
Country	Colombia
Coordinates	4°36′59″N 74°4′31″W / 4.61639°N 74.07528°W
Type	Public
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Central Cemetery of Bogotá (Spanish: Cementerio Central de Bogotá) is one of the main and most famous cemeteries in Colombia located in Bogotá. Houses several national heroes, poets and former Colombian presidents. It was opened in 1836 and was declared National Monument in 1984. Some of the sculptors of the mausoleums are Tenerani and Sighinolfi.

Pavilion of the Presidents and First Ladies

The cemetery has been the site of many funerals and burials. The presidents buried in the pavilion of the presidents:

Pavilion of the Presidents

Central wing

Francisco de Paula Santander – First constitutional Colombian president
Miguel Abadía Méndez – Former president
Santos Acosta – Former president
Miguel Antonio Caro – Former president
Laureano Gómez – Former president
José Ignacio de Márquez – Former president
Rafael Reyes – Former president
Eustorgio Salgar Moreno – Former president
Eduardo Santos – Former president

Right wing

Santiago Pérez – Former president
José Vicente Concha – Former president
Alfonso López Pumarejo – Former president
María Michelsen Lombana – First Lady
Alfonso López Michelsen – Former president
Cecilia Caballero Blanco – First lady
Marco Fidel Suárez – Former president
Carlos Lleras Restrepo – Former president
Cecilia de la Fuente de Lleras – First lady
Gustavo Rojas – Former president
Virgilio Barco Vargas – Former president
Carolina Isakson – First lady

Left wing

Manuel Murillo Toro – Former president
Enrique Olaya – Former president
Misael Pastrana Borrero – Former president
María Cristina Arango – First lady

Notable interments

Soledad Acosta – Writer and journalist
Rafael Almansa – Venerated Catholic priest
Gilberto Alzate Avendaño – Former ambassador to Spain
José Asunción Silva – poet and writer
José Fernández Madrid – Scientist, writer and statesman
Luis Carlos Galán – Former candidate for presidency
Julio Garavito – astronomer
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado – Former candidate for presidency
León de Greiff – poet and Writer
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada – Founder of Bogota

Cenotaph of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada at Central Cemetery.

Leo Siegfried Kopp – Founder of the Bavaria Beer Company
Nepomuceno Matallana – serial killer
Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert – Founder of the National Police of Colombia
Jaime Pardo Leal – Former candidate for presidency
Carlos Pizarro – Former candidate for presidency
Rafael Pombo – poet and writer
Hena Rodríguez – sculptor^[1]
Oreste Sindici – Composer of the National Anthem of Colombia
Rafael Uribe Uribe – Politician and statesman
José Eustasio Rivera – Lawyer and novelist

References

^ "Murió la Escultora Hena Rodríguez" [Death of Sculptor Hena Rodríguez]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia. 18 April 1997. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

External links

Central Cemetery of Bogota photos and information
Central Cemetery of Bogota page (in Spanish)
Central Cemetery of Bogotá at Find a Grave

[1] "Murió la Escultora Hena Rodríguez" [Death of Sculptor Hena Rodríguez]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia. 18 April 1997. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

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