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Omayra Sánchez

1972 - 1985

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Omayra Sánchez Garzón (August 28, 1972 – November 16, 1985) was a Colombian girl trapped and killed by a landslide when she was 13 years old. The landslide was caused by the 1985 eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz in Armero, Tolima. Volcanic debris mixed with ice to form massive lahars (volcanically induced mudflows, landslides, and debris flows), which rushed into the river valleys below the mountain, killing about 25,000 people and destroying Armero and 13 other villages. After the lahar demolished her home, Sánchez was trapped beneath the debris of her house, where she remained in water for three days, as rescue workers did not have any way to render life-saving medical care if they amputated her hopelessly pinned legs. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Omayra Sánchez is the 11,261st most popular politician (down from 10,086th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Colombia (down from 41st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Colombian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Omayra Sánchez ranks 11,261 out of 19,576. Before her are Oshin, King of Armenia, Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Echestratus, Ibrahim ibn Tashfin, and Nasr I. After her are Adone Zoli, Mari Kiviniemi, Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Viacheslav I of Kiev, and Lê Đức Anh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Omayra Sánchez ranks 82. Before her are Sarah Clarke, Billie Joe Armstrong, Asghar Farhadi, Carmen Electra, Brian Tyler, and Abel Xavier. After her are Alain Berset, Toto Wolff, Gabriel Macht, R-Truth, The Great Khali, and Sandra Kim. Among people deceased in 1985, Omayra Sánchez ranks 118. Before her are Dmitry Belyayev, Paul Castellano, Oreco, Benjamin Markarian, Robert Surtees, and Julia Robinson. After her are Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Gale Sondergaard, Gaston Rébuffat, Sergei Gerasimov, Helene Engelmann, and Enrique Fernández Viola.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Omayra Sánchez ranks 50 out of 356. Before her are Catalina Sandino Moreno (1981), Andrés Pastrana Arango (1954), Manuel Amador Guerrero (1833), Faustino Asprilla (1969), Iván Córdoba (1976), and Laura Montoya (1874). After her are Laureano Gómez (1889), Faryd Mondragón (1971), Alberto Lleras Camargo (1906), Misael Pastrana Borrero (1923), Juan Cuadrado (1988), and Alfonso Cano (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Omayra Sánchez ranks 21. Before her are Íngrid Betancourt (1961), Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900), Alfonso López Michelsen (1913), Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903), Andrés Pastrana Arango (1954), and Manuel Amador Guerrero (1833). After her are Laureano Gómez (1889), Alberto Lleras Camargo (1906), Misael Pastrana Borrero (1923), Joaquín Mosquera (1787), Mariano Ospina Pérez (1891), and Carlos Lleras Restrepo (1908).

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