Pastor Oropeza Riera (12 October 1901 – 9 July 1991), born in
Carora
The City of Carora, commonly called Carora City (in Spanish, Ciudad de Carora), is a city in Lara State, Venezuela, on the Morere River, a branch of the Tocuyo River. It is about 54 miles southwest of Barquisimeto. Carora City was founded twice. T ...
,
Lara State
Lara State ( es, Estado Lara, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Barquisimeto.
Lara State covers a total surface area of and, in 2015, had a census population of 2,019,211.
Toponymy
The state is named after a notable ...
,
Venezuela, was a renowned
pediatrician
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
and one of the most prominent medical personalities in Venezuela. Later on in his life he also occupied certain political positions.
1901 births
1991 deaths
People from Lara (state)
Venezuelan pediatricians
20th-century Venezuelan physicians
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