Adolfo León Gómez
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n poet, jurist and politician born in Pasca
Pasca
Pasca is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia located over the Andes mountains. It belongs to the Sumapaz province.- Name :Pasca in the chibchan language means father's fence, according to Acosta Ortegón....
, Cundinamarca
Cundinamarca Department
- Origin of the name :The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechua. Meaning "Condor's Nest", it was used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands....
. He was a grandson of Josefa Acevedo de Gomez
Josefa Acevedo de Gomez
Josefa Acevedo de Gomez was the first civilian woman writer in Colombia. She was born in Bogotá and died in Pasca, Cundinamarca.She was grandmother of Colombian politician and poet Adolfo Leon Gomez.- External links :*...
, the first civilian woman writer in Colombia.
Further reading
- Sánchez López, Luis María: Diccionario de escritores colombianos, - 2a. ed. - Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1982