Palomo (horse)

Equestrian sculpture of Simón Bolívar in Quebec.

Palomo was one of the horses of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of the republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia. The horse was white, tall and with a tail that came almost to the ground. Gift of Casilda Zafra, a peasant from the town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, now a department of Boyacá, Colombia, shortly after the crossing of the patriot army from the Venezuelan plains across the páramo de Pisba in 1819. On the back of Palomo, Bolivar defeated in Batalla of the Swamp of Vargas, Batalla of Boyacá, Batalla de Bomboná and Batalla de Junín.

It is not known what the end of Palomo was. It is believed that Bolivar gave it to General Andres de Santa Cruz in Bolivia in 1826 and there his trail is lost. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the village of Mulaló, municipality of Yumbo, in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, say that Palomo died in that town on December 17, 1840. There is a tombstone indicating the site where he was supposedly buried . There is a museum in this town that shows old horseshoes that say are those of Palomo. If it is true that Palomo died in Mulaló, then most likely the horse stayed there in 1829, when Bolivar came from Ecuador to Bogota.

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