Joaquín Camacho
| Joaquín Camacho | |
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1825 portrait by Coriolano Leudo
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| President of the United Provinces of the New Granada* | |
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In office October 5, 1814 – January 21, 1815 |
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| Preceded by | Camilo Torres Tenorio |
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Triumvirate |
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José Joaquín Justo Camacho Lago July 17, 1766 Tunja, Boyacá, Viceroyalty of the New Granada |
| Died | August 31, 1816 Bogotá, Cundinamarca, United Provinces of New Granada |
| Spouse(s) | Marcelina Rodríguez Lago y Castillo |
| Alma mater | Our Lady of the Rosary University |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Triumvirate
Custodio García Rovira, José Miguel Pey de Andrade,
José Joaquín Justo Camacho Lago (July 17, 1766 – August 31, 1816) was a Neogranadine statesman, lawyer, journalist and professor, who worked for the Independence of the New Granada, what is now Colombia, and participated in the Open Cabildo which declared the Act of Independence, of which he was also a signer. He was executed during the Reign of Terror of Pablo Morillo after the Spanish invasion of New Granada.
Camacho was born on July 17, 1766, in Tunja, which was part of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada, now Colombia. His parents were Francisco Camacho y Solórzano and Rosa Rodríguez de Lago y Castillo. He attended Our Lady of the Rosary University where he studied Jurisprudence. He was admitted as a lawyer by the Royal Audiency of Santafé de Bogotá in the year 1792. He became one of the most important lawyers of the viceroyalty and winning the admiration of his colleagues.
On June 13, 1793, Camacho married Marcelina Rodríguez de Lago y Castillo, a member of the prominent Sanz de Santamaría family on her mother’s side. Together they had three children.
Responding to a prize competition in 1808 by philanthropist Nicolás Manuel Tanco, Camacho wrote Memoria sobre la causa y curación de los cotos, an account on the cause and treatment for goitre; this remarkable work won the competition. The competition was a response to the situation of Bogotá, which at the time was having a small epidemic of goiter.
Camacho wrote for the Seminario del Nuevo Reino de Granada, a newsletter edited by Francisco José de Caldas, its most important contribution was in 1809, Relación territorial de la provincia de Pamplona en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, an extensive account of the Province of Pamplona at the end of the Colonial Period. In it is described its main cities, the fauna and flora of the region, the provincial limits and borders, and other geographical and botanical information about Pamplona.
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