Policarpa Salavarrieta’s Report

Policarpa Salavarrieta was born on 26 January in 1795 in Nueva

Granada, nowadays Colombia. She lived 224 year ago and she
was known as "La Pola". She was spy and spied for the
Revolutionary Forces during the Spanish Reconquest of
the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada. Her real name is unknown,
also his date and place of birth because her birth certificate was
never found but it is believed that she was born in Guaduas
(Cundinamarca).

Salavarrieta’s family moved to Bogotá between 1796–1798, living in a small house in the
Santa Bárbara neiborhood. Unfortunately In 1802 a smallpox epidemic broke out in the
capital, killing thousands people, including Policarpa’s father, mother and her brother.

After that tragedy in which Policarpa lost several members of his family there is little
information about this period in Policarpa's life. What is known is that she worked as a
seamstress, and is also believed that she had worked as a teacher in a public school.
Policarpa Salavarrieta was the heroine more famous of the “Nueva Granada” during the
“Epoca de terror”

In Bogota, Policarpa did subversive activities and dangerous task, she was sewing for the
ladies of the realist with the final purpose of listen news, find out the number, the
movements, the armament, and the orders of the enemy tropos, also, she convinced
young people to join them to the groups of patriots.

Many historians of this period consider Policarpa Salavarrieta the most representative
woman of the colombian revolution, her death moved the people and created a big
resistance at regime of terror imposed by Juan Sámano,more and more people joined to
patriotic armies, a series of events broking out between the royalist an Independence
armies, after of a long period of clashes, in 1819 when the guerrillas of Cundinamarca
joined to the troops of Simon Bolivar, the army became strong and resulted victorious
.Although many women died during the Spanish occupation, the case of “Pola” captivated
the popular imagination, her death inspired poets, writers and dramatist to inmortalize her
story.

On November 9, 1967, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, under Law 44 of the Congress
of the Republic of Colombia, he signed and declared in his second article on November
14, "Day of Colombian Women" in honor of the anniversary of the death of "Our Heroine,
Policarpa Salavarrieta”

Bibliography
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policarpa_Salavarrieta#Trascendencia_hist%C3%B3rica
http://enciclopedia.banrepcultural.org/index.php?title=Policarpa_Salavarrieta#Llegada_a_l
a_capital_y_trabajo_de_espionaje
http://www.colombiainforma.info/policarpa-salavarrieta-valentia-y-coraje/