Amparo de Zeledón

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is López, the second or maternal family name is Calleja, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Zeledón.
Amparo de Zeledón
Zeledón in 1940
Born
Amparo López Calleja

(1870-08-07)7 August 1870
Nuevitas, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire
Died20 April 1951(1951-04-20) (aged 80)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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(m. 1895; died 1934)​

Amparo de Zeledón (née López Calleja: 7 August 1870 – 20 April 1951) was a Cuban botanist, social activist and philanthropist. Zeledón was the first female botanist in Costa Rica and spent the end of her life in Honduras.

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