Manuela Sáenz : "mi patria es el continente de la América"

Abstract

In the present work, she approaches the thinking and activity of Manuela Sáenz, a native of Quito. She is undoubtedly one of the most important and interesting women of the independence era. It was excluded from the history of the nineteenth century and throughout the XX most historians highlighted, fundamentally, their beauty, intelligence and generosity in love. They also highlighted his profile as a lover of one of the most important American heroes, Simón Bolívar.