Sara Ugarte de Salamanca (1866-1925) was a Bolivian poet and wife of

Daniel Salamanca Urey Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey (8 July 1869 – 17 July 1935) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 33rd president of Bolivia from 1931 to 1934 until he was overthrown in a ''coup d'état'' on November 27, 1934, during the country's ...

. She was from

Cochabamba Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630 ...

. She campaigned to have a monument built to the local heroines who had fought trained soldiers in 1812.

Life

She was born in 1866 in

. Her husband, Daniel Salamanca Urey, was also born in that city. She campaigned to have a monument built to celebrate local heroes of the

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at the top of the hill of San Sebastián. Cochabamba, Bolivia. This was where battles were fought on the 27 May 12812. The women had resisted the forces of General Jose Manuel de Goyeneche. Ugarte founded and led the "27 de Mayo" Patriotic Society (precursor of the current ''Civic Women's Committee''7), and fought to create a monument to the Heroines of the Crown. In 1926, a year after Ugarte's death, President Hernando Siles agreed that the monument could be built on the top of San Sebastián Hill. The celebrations lasted three days and included the inauguration of the ''25 de Mayo market''.

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Bolivian women poets 19th-century Bolivian women writers 20th-century Bolivian women writers People from Cochabamba 1866 births 1925 deaths {{Bolivia-writer-stub