Jesús Arango Cano (21 June 1915 – 9 January 2015) was a Colombian

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, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer.

Biography

Arango Cano was born in La Tebaida, Colombia, a village that his father, archaeologist Luis Arango Cardona, founded a year after his birth.Murió Jesús Arango Cano: el más prolífico escritor quindiano
/ref> He attended the

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in New Brunswick, New Jersey and studied Economy at the

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and later International Relations at

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, New York.Más de 50 libros escribió el extinto escritor Jesús Arango Cano
/ref> In the 1940s Arango Cano became

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for Colombia in

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and Undersecretary of International Relations. Arango Cano has written more than fifty books of which 40 are published. His first two books were ''Inmigración para Colombia'', published in 1951, and ''Inmigración y Colonización en la Gran Colombia'' in 1953. In 1965 Arango published his book ''Mitos, leyendas y dioses chibchas'', about the

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, legends and deities of the

Muisca The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan langu ...

.Arango Cano, 1965 He also wrote about the Quimbaya, Calima and other

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, not only of Colombia, but also about the

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and

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. Arango published about the

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, the

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region in central Colombia where he was born. In the 1970s, Arango Cano followed his father and became an archaeologist. In 1974 his work ''Las esmeraldas sagradas: el tesoro de Furatena'' about Furatena, mythological figure for the

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was published. On May 23, 1980, Arango Cano together with other historians founded the ''Academia de Historia del Quindío''. Jesús Arango Cano has published mainly in

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and also in English and German.List of works by Jesús Arango Cano
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Arango Cano died in

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, on January 9, 2015, at age 99.

Works

This list is a selection.List of books by Jesús Arango Cano
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Books

* 1996 - ''Cuentos y relatos de la vida real'' * 1991 - ''Fantasías del corazón'' * 1989 - ''Mitología en América precolombina : México-aztecas, Colombia-chibchas, Perú-incas'' * 1987 - ''Las dos caras de Estados Unidos'' * 1976 - ''Cerámica quimbaya y calima'' * 1974 - ''Las esmeraldas sagradas: el tesoro de Furatena'' * 1971 - ''Cuentos y anécdotas de mi tierra'' * 1969 - ''Diálogos cafeteros'' * 1962 - ''Capitalismo, comunismo y libertad'' * 1959 - ''Estados Unidos, mito y realidad'' * 1957 - ''La industria mundial del cafe'' * 1955 - ''Geografía física y económica de Colombia'' * 1953 - ''Inmigración y colonización en la Grancolombia''

Articles

* 2000 - ''Y hablando de ortografía'' * 1999 - ''En defensa de la gramática y a propósito de la "ch" y la "ll"'' * 1997 - ''Cervantes, don Quijote y el amor'' * 1979 - ''La dimensión espacial de la crisis en España''

References

Notable works by Arango Cano