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Manuel Mara Uribe Angel was a Colombian physician, geographer and politician, he has been called the father of medicine of Antioquia for his contributions to the advances of the practice of medicine in Colombia and the Antioquia Department. He was also known outside the realm of medicine for his studies and works on the geography and history of Colombia. He also served as President of the then Sovereign State of Antioquia and as Senator of Colombia.

Manuel Mara Uribe Angl was born onSeptember 1822 in la Magnolia, the hacienda of his parents Jos Mara Uribe Arango and Mara Josefa ngel Uribe, both from an educated and well to do family in the town of Envigado, in what was then the Province of Antioquia, now Antioquia Department, during the First Republic or Gran Colombia. As customary in those times, he was baptized the following day in the parish church of Saint Gertrude in Envigado by Felipe de Restrepo. And years later confirmed in the Roman Catholic faith by the 1st Bishop Antioquia Mariano Garnica y Dorjuela.

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