- CountryChile
- Town:Punta Arenas
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Year of creation:1938
- Rider(s):Bulnes, Manuel
(1799–1866) was President of Chile between 1841 and 1851. At the age of 16 he was imprisoned as a revolutionary by the Spanish authorities, but was soon released. In 1818, he joined the army of San Martin under whom he served as a colonel throughout the Chilean War of Independence. Prieto commanded the Chilean army in 1838 against Peru.
- Sculptor(s):Benlliure, Mariano
(1862 –1947) was a Spanish sculptor, who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style.
- Original in:Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Photo by Micah MacAllen
