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Cartagena has paid tribute to the scientist and explorer Marcos Jiménez de la Espada from Cartagena, this time with the placement of a plaque in his home, located on San Antonio el Pobre street.

During the discovery of the plaque, which took place this Thursday, October 25, the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, gave a few words of appreciation to the figure and work of this important Cartagena scientist.

The act also counted with the participation of other members of the Municipal Corporation, official chroniclers of the city;

and head of the Department of History of the Jiménez de la Espada Institute, Paco Velasco, together with his students.

This initiative, departed from the professors of this department of the Jiménez de la Espada Institute, who have fought for the city to honor the memory of the illustrious Cartagena through the placement of this plaque that indicates the exact place where he was born on March 5 of 1831 and where he spent his childhood.

Castejón recalled that Jiménez de la Espada performed "an invaluable work" in fields as diverse as Zoology, Geography or History, which made him an internationally renowned scientist and "one of the most important contributions that Cartagena has made." made to the world. '

And it is that Jiménez de la Espada was one of the most important Spanish scientists of the 19th century, the most outstanding of all the members that formed the expedition called the Pacific Scientific Commission and was part of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural

For all this, the City had a pending debt with him, especially, as the mayor has recognized, 'since in 1925 the municipal government was committed to carry out this recognition, which had not been made possible until the day from today'.

For his part, the head of the Department of History of the Jiménez de la Espada Institute, Paco Velasco, has made a tour of the biography of Jiménez de la Espada, highlighting the most notable milestones he obtained in the field of natural sciences, especially during his expedition in which he toured some of the most important volcanoes of the Andes, studying its geology, its biology and even the fauna that existed in the place.

As Velasco has indicated, with the placement of this plaque "justice will be done to a very illustrious person of our municipality."

This initiative is added to the acknowledgments that the municipality had previously made to the figure of this famous Cartagena, who has an institute, a street and a bust.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena