Juan Wallparrimachi

Wallparrimachi was born in the village of Macha, in the Chayanta Province of the Potosí Department in Bolivia.^[2] The grandson of a Portuguese Jew, and the son of an indigenous mother from Cuzco, Peru, and a Spanish father, who both died shortly after his birth.^[3][4] He was raised by indigenous people and later recruited by the guerrillas Manuel Ascensio Padilla and Juana Azurduy de Padilla, with whom he fought against the Spanish government.^[5] As he only knew the surname of his maternal grandfather, he adopted it.^[6]

He died at the age of 20, in an 1814 battle in the Bolivian War of Independence, under the command of his leader and protector, Juana Azurduy.^[7] He has passed into immortality as a "poet-soldier" in Bolivian literature.