| Eleonora Camargo Veiga | |
 Eleonora Camargo Veiga at the age of 112 | |
| Birth: | 14 August 1901 Bacacheri, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil |
| Death: | 7 March 2016 Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil |
| Age: | 114 years, 206 days |
| Country: |  BRA
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| Validated | |
Eleonora Camargo Veiga (14 August 1901 – 7 March 2016) was a Brazilian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography[]
Eleonora Camargo Veiga was born in Bacacheri, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil on 14 August 1901. Her parents were Etelvina Pinto Rebello and Afonso Alves de Camargo, who was the Governor of Parana state from 1916–1920 and again from 1928–1930. She had 10 siblings.
Her younger sister, Flora Camargo Munhoz da Rocha (1911–2014), was the First Lady of Parana state from 1950–1954 and the wife of Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto.
She married Didimo Amaral Agapito da Veiga. The couple had at least one daughter: Vera Beatriz Agapito Da Veiga. She was widowed in 1987.
In August 2011, she celebrated her 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian.
She died in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on 7 March 2016 at the age of 114 years, 206 days. At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest known living person in Brazil (after Francisca Simao) and the sixth-oldest known living person in the world, behind Susannah Mushatt Jones, Emma Morano, Violet Brown, Nabi Tajima, and Chiyo Miyako.
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References[]
- 2022 validations Gerontology Research Group
- Senhorinha que morreu em Copacabana pode ter sido a mais velha do Rio O Globo, 15 March 2016
- Morre no Rio Sra. Eleonora Camargo aos 114 anos Blog Bebel Ritzmann, 16 March 2016