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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omayra Sánchez has received more than 7,243,581 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Omayra Sánchez is the 10,087th most popular politician (up from 10,190th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Colombia (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Colombian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Omayra Sánchez ranks 10,087 out of 19,576. Before her are Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Albert Apponyi, Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Joan I, Countess of Burgundy, Michał Rola-Żymierski, and Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Edward Balliol, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Nông Đức Mạnh, Mussius Aemilianus, and Lucius Papirius Cursor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Omayra Sánchez ranks 57. Before her are Josh Duhamel, Edward Calvin Kendall, Giovane Élber, Sofia Helin, Sung Kang, and Karel Poborský. After her are Liam Gallagher, Brian Molko, The Great Khali, Nikki Haley, Asghar Farhadi, and Marlon Wayans. Among people deceased in 1985, Omayra Sánchez ranks 94. Before her are Anton Karas, Géza Toldi, Stefan Bellof, Susanne Langer, Evgeny Lifshitz, and Paul Castellano. After her are Élias Sarkis, Sergei Yutkevich, Edmond O'Brien, Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Victor Capesius, and Johanna Wolf.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Omayra Sánchez ranks 41 out of 356. Before her are Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929), Samael Aun Weor (1917), Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900), Policarpa Salavarrieta (1795), Darío Castrillón Hoyos (1929), and Alfonso López Michelsen (1913). After her are Faustino Asprilla (1969), Iván Córdoba (1976), Juan Pablo Montoya (1975), José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez (1919), Andrés Pastrana Arango (1954), and Alfonso López Trujillo (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Omayra Sánchez ranks 19. Before her are Ernesto Samper (1950), Manuel Marulanda (1930), Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903), Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916), Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900), and Alfonso López Michelsen (1913). After her are Andrés Pastrana Arango (1954), Laureano Gómez (1889), Rafael Núñez (1825), Misael Pastrana Borrero (1923), Guillermo León Valencia (1909), and Alberto Lleras Camargo (1906).

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