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Biography

Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano was born in 1510 in the

n village

with parents Juan Martin Camacho Savidos and Elvira Gonzáles Zambrana. He had a brother named Juan Martin Camacho Sabidos. Camacho Zambrano married Isabel Pérez de Cuéllar and the couple had seven children; two sons and five daughters.Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano
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