Simón Bolívar: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	El Libertador • The Liberator
Born	July 24, 1783 • Caracas • Viceroyalty of New Granada
Died	December 17, 1830 (aged 47) • near Santa Marta • Colombia
Title / Office	president (1823-1829), Peru
Role In	Battle of Boyacá • Battle of Lake Maracaibo • wars of independence

Did You Know?

Bol�var ended slavery in the countries in which he held political power.
Venezuela asked for Bol�var's body from Colombia more than a dozen years after he died.
Bol�var's body has been exhumed several times by Venezuelan leaders for political reasons.

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Map of the Americas in 1780 showing the Spanish and Portuguese viceroyalties. Spanish territories are shaded in green, including the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Viceroyalty of Peru, Viceroyalty of New Granada, and Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata. Portuguese territory, labeled as the Viceroyalty of Brazil, is shaded in purple. Borders between Spanish and Portuguese lands are marked, with amendments from 1750 and 1778 indicated. British territory is shown in the northern part of North America. Ma

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Painting by Jose Gil de Castro of Simon Bolivar standing on a checkered floor, wearing an ornate black military uniform with gold embroidery and holding a sword.

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Bronze equestrian statue of General Simon Bolivar on a stone pedestal labeled Bolivar in Bolivar Square, Tunja, Colombia, with the Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle behind.

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