Mosquera family

Mosquera
Mosquera
	Coat of arms of the Mosquera family, as reproduced in El gran general: Más allá del poder y la gloria, combining the arms of the Mosquera y Figueroa, Arboleda Salazar, Prieto de Tovar, Vergara, Silva, Hurtado de Mendoza, and Urrutia y Guzmán lineages.
	Joaquín Mosquera Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera Manuel José Mosquera
Current region	Colombia, Spain, United States
Earlier spellings	Moscón (in Extremaduran)
Place of origin	Badajoz, Spain
Founded	16th century
Founder	Cristóbal de Mosquera y Figueroa
Final ruler	Víctor Mosquera Chaux
Titles	List Regent of Spain (President of the Regency of the Kingdom of Spain) ; President of the Supreme Central Junta of Spain ; President of Gran Colombia ; President of the Republic of New Granada ; President of the Grenadine Confederation ; President of the United States of Colombia ; Acting President of Colombia (Presidential Designate, 1981) ; Vicepresident of New Granada ; Archbishop of Bogotá ; Secretary of War and Navy of New Granada ; Secretary of the Interior and Foreign Affairs of New Granada ; President of the Senate of Colombia ; Ambassador of Colombia to the United States ; Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom ; Grand General of the United States of Colombia (unique title) ; Libertador ;
Connected families	Arboleda family; Epalza family; Figueroa family; Salazar family; Valencia family; Vergara family
Traditions	Roman Catholic Church
Motto	Victorious and never defeated

The Mosquera Family is a prominent colombian aristocratic and political family, originated in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries its members played a major role in the political, economic, religious and social life of New Granada and later Colombia specially in the Cauca region and Popayán, in what is today southwestern Colombia.

Three of its most prominent members, Joaquín de Mosquera Figueroa y Arboleda Vergara, who served as Regent of Spain in 1812, Joaquín Mosquera and Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, served as presidents of Colombia (or its predecessor states), and numerous relatives were influential politicians, soldiers, diplomats, ecclesiastics and businessmen. Simón Bolívar named José María Mosquera as 'the first citizen of America' and his family, as the favorite family of The Liberator in all of Gran Colombia.