Vicenta Juaristi Eguino

Vicenta Juaristi Eguino (1780-1857) was a Bolivian women involved in the movement to end Spanish rule in what is now Bolivia. Together with Úrsula Goyzueta and Simona Manzaneda, she is counted as one of the three heroines of the Bolivian War of Independence.

Biography Vincenta's mother died in childbirth, so she was raised by her brother Pedro Eguino, who trained her in the ideals and feelings of freedom. She married Rodríguez Flores de Picón while she was still very young. After his death from an illness, she married Mariano de Ayoroa.

Vincenta died on March 14, 1857, at the age of 72. Upon her death, she received solemn funeral honors by the government of General Jorge Córdova. In La Paz, there is a square dedicated to her memory with a statue of Vicenta sculpted by Victor Hugo Barrenechea, inaugurated on December 11, 1975.