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Dolores Velez Bravo
Dolores Velez Bravo
Velez Bravo at the age of 112
Birth: 21 November 1907
Llacao, Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
Death: 12 October 2021
Ecuador
Age: 113 years, 325 days
Country: EcuadorECU
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Dolores Velez Bravo [Spanish: Vélez] (21 November 1907 – 12 October 2021) was an Ecuadorian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She is the second-oldest validated person ever from Ecuador, behind Maria Capovilla.

Biography[]

Dolores Velez Bravo was born in Llacao, Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador on 21 November 1907. Her parents were Daniel Velez and Mercedes Bravo.

She married Alipio Siavichay in 1931. The couple had at least three children in the 1930s, one of whom died as an infant.

She married Jose Benedicto Culcay in 1942. The couple had at least three children.

She was passionate about creole eggs with malt and honey and she sold "Fritada" (Ecuadorian dish) in a pork merchant town. Her diet was products of her very same land but she was a very fan of rompope, eggs and malta.

Her life was hard because her father didn't want her because she did what they told her not to do: her parents didn't want her to marry a Native American man.

Around 1990, when she burned the idols and images in the village they almost burned her alive as she converted Evangelical. The people of the town came to burn her with sticks and stones, at that moment religious images were being burned, the priest spoke with authority from God and those of the town backed down, she was the first Evangelical Christian in Llacao, Cuenca.

She became the oldest known living person in Ecuador, following the death of 113-year-old Virginia Constante between 10 July 2020 and 18 May 2021.

Velez Bravo died in Azuay province, Ecuador on 12 October 2021 at the age of 113 years, 325 days.

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