Simón Bolívar was born in VENEZUELA. He grew up in a wealthy family and was educated in SPAIN. He was a leading Latin American revolutionary leader who was known as EL LIBERTADOR.
Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and politician, founder of the republics of Gran Colombia and Bolivia. He was one of the most outstanding figures of the Spanish-American emancipation against the Spanish Empire. It helped to inspire and reach the independence of the current Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
In 1813 he was awarded the honorary title of Libertador (liberator) by the Cabildo (council) of Mérida in Venezuela, which, after being ratified in Caracas that year, was associated with his name.
He participated in the founding of Gran Colombia, a nation he tried to consolidate as a great political and military confederation in America, of which he was president.
