
Miguel de Zañartu Santa María (1786 – 25 October 1851) was a Chilean politician and lawyer. During the
Chilean Independence War he was a prominent Patriot being forced into exile to
Mendoza in 1814 when the
Patria Vieja
Patria Vieja (, ) refers to a time period in the History of Chile occurring between the First Junta of the Government (September 18, 1810) and the Disaster of Rancagua (October 1, 1814). In this period, Chilean measures were taken for the impri ...
fell to the
Royalists. In 1817 he returned to Chile.
Zañartu was among the signatories of the
Chilean Declaration of Independence.
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1786 births
1851 deaths
Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
Chilean independence activists
19th-century Chilean lawyers
People from Concepción, Chile