Simón Bolívar
1783 CE–1830 CE · Caracas, Venezuela
Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) was a Venezuelan-born military and political leader who directed the campaigns that ended Spanish colonial rule across much of northern and western South America. His forces liberated the territories of present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the last of which was named in his honor. He served as president of Gran Colombia from 1819 until 1830 and held other executive offices in the newly independent states. His efforts to unite the region into a single federation ultimately collapsed, and he died in 1830 in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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Caracas, Venezuela
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Bolívar was born into an aristocratic Creole family in Caracas, then part of the Spanish Captaincy General of Venezuela.
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