Carlos Pedemonte Sabín

Carlos Pedemonte Sabín (14 October 1895 – 25 July 1972) was a Spanish geographer and military officer.

Biography A soldier in the infantry, in May 1936 Pedemonte was appointed governor of the Sahara. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he remained loyal to the Republic and returned to the Republican zone, becoming a military instructor for the new People's Army. He rose to command militias in the central operational zone. Later, in 1937, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. At the end of the war, he went into exile from Spain and moved to Cuba, along with other Republican exiles.

During his Cuban period, Pedemonte was a teacher at the Military Civic Institute. Later he also stood out in the field of geography, becoming head of the Cartography Section of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA).