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Juana Azurduy
Juana Azurduy
	Portrait of Azurduy commissioned by the National Historical Museum in Buenos Aires in c. 1895. There are no known surviving portraits of Azurduy made during her lifetime.
Personal details
Born	Juana Azurduy; 12 July 1780; Toroca, Upper Peru, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (present-day Bolivia)
Died	25 May 1862 (aged 81); Sucre, Bolivia
Spouse	Manuel Ascencio Padilla (m. 1799; died 1816)
Children	5
Profession	Guerrilla military
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
Rank	Lieutenant colonel (Argentina); General (Argentina; promoted posthumously in 2009); Colonel (Bolivia); Marshal (Bolivia; promoted posthumously in 2009);
Unit	Army of the North
Battles/wars	Spanish American wars of independence Argentine War of Independence; Bolivian War of Independence; ;

Juana Azurduy de Padilla (12 July 1780 – 25 May 1862) was a military leader from Upper Peru, in present-day Bolivia, known for her role alongside her husband, Manuel Ascencio Padilla, in the guerrilla warfare that characterized the Spanish American wars of independence in that region.

Life

Early life and marriage

Juana Azurduy was born on 12 July 1780 in Toroca, a village near Chuquisaca (present-day Sucre), in the territory then known as Upper Peru, which currently makes up the country of Bolivia. At that time, the region was the northernmost part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, which was established in 1776 and had Buenos Aires as its capital.

https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/mujer_independencias/dacosta.htm

https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/mujer_independencias/bados01.htm

https://idus.us.es/bitstream/handle/11441/92759/0.pdf