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Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco
Caracas 1783 - Santa Marta, Colombia 1830
military and political leader; played a key role in Latin America's struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire.
(Wikipedia)

Juan Jaén Díaz
1970

Description

Statue of Simón Bolívar standing in a thoughtfur pose, with one hand at his chin. On the side of tha baseplate the name of the donor: amigos de garachico. At the right side of the pedestal a plaque is mounted with a genealogy of Bolívar's descent from the brothers Juan and Tomas de Ponte Fernandez y Clavijo, who emigrated at the end of the sixteenth century from Garachico to Venezuela. The brothers are grandchildren of the founder of Garachico Cristóbal de Ponte, whose bust is in the Parque de la Puerta de Tierra.

The monolith at the base, the light source and the gardens are the work of the Garachian artist Pascual González Regalado. T coats-of-arms of the Bolivarian countr and Spain, engraved in bronze by the artists Edelina Martín, Rosa León, Roberto Padrón and Francisco Rodríguez, have been embedded in the pavement of the square. The coats of arms of Spain and Venezuela are directly in front of the statue (we photographed only four of them).

Garachico - Simón Bolívar
Venezuela
Spain
Panama
Peru

Inscription(s)

SIMON
BOLIVAR

Monumento erigido a la egregia figura
de Simon Bolivar por iniciativa de la
Asociacion Civil Amigos de Garachico
en Venezuela, como justo homenaje de
la colectividad canaria al pueblo
venezolano.
Escultor Juan Jaen 24 de Julio 1970 Monument erected to the great figure
of Simon Bolivar at the initiative of the
Civil Association Friends of Garachico
in Venezuela, as a fair tribute by
the Canarian community of the Venezuelan
people
Sculptor Juan Jaen 25 July 1970

Los hermanos Juan y Tomas de Ponte Fernandez
y Clavijo nacidos en Garachico, llevarian a
Venezuela la sangre canaria de Simon Bolivar The brothers Juan and Tomas de Ponte Fernandez
y Clavijo, born in Garachico, would bring
to Venezuela the Canarian blood of Simon Bolivar

Juan
de Ponte Fernández
y Clavijo
[c. 1542-1641
x
Maria de Rebolledo y Diaz
| Tomas
de Ponte Fernández
y Clavijo
[c. 1550-...
x
Ines de Paz y Gomez]
|

Pedro
Blanco
Gerardo
[1557-1615] Beatriz
de Ponte
y Rebolledo
[c. 1570-c. 1610] Francisca
de Ponte y Paz*
[ca. 1585-c. 1667
x
[Francisco Infante Gomez de Aguero y Rojas]
|

---------------
| |

Alejandro
Blanco de Ponte
[1603-...] Francisca
Infante
de [Rojas y] Ponte*
1606-...]

---------------
|

Mateo Blanco Infante
[1642-1725
x
Josefa Fernandez de Araujo y Rivilla]
|

Mateo Blanco Infante
[Mateo Jose Blanco y Fernandez de Araujo, 1689-1742]
|

Francisca Blanco de Herrera
[1738-...
x
Feliciano de Palacios Sojo y Gil de Arratia]
|

Maria de la Concepción
Palacios y Blanco
[1758-1792] Juan Vicente
de Bolívar y Ponte
[1726-1786]

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|

Simón Bolívar Palacios
[1783-1830]

*On the plaque "Francisca Infante de Ponte" is interchanged with her mother "Francisca de Ponte y Paz"
This, and the information in grey and between brackets, is derived from Bolívar's genealogy on Geneanet.

Sculptor

Juan Jaén Díaz (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1909 - Caracas, Venezuela 2008), Spanish-Canarian sculptor from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, lived since the 1950s in Brazil and Venezuela (Obituary).

Sources & Information

Garachico, Turismo, Monumentos.
Escultura Urbana (Aragón), España, Canarias.

Locatie (N 28°22'23" - W 16°45'52") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca517; Photograph: 30 January 2020
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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