Jesús Arango Cano (21 June 1915 – 9 January 2015) was a Colombian economist, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer.
Biography Arango Cano was born in La Tebaida, Colombia, a village that his father, archaeologist Luis Arango Cardona, founded a year after his birth. Murió Jesús Arango Cano: el más prolífico escritor quindiano He attended the Rutgers Preparatory School in New Brunswick, New Jersey and studied Economy at the University of California and later International Relations at Columbia University, New York. Más de 50 libros escribió el extinto escritor Jesús Arango Cano
In the 1940s Arango Cano became consul for Colombia in São Paulo, Brazil and Undersecretary of International Relations.
Arango Cano has written more than fifty books of which 40 are published. His first two books were Inmigración para Colombia, published in 1951, and Inmigración y Colonización en la Gran Colombia in 1953.
In 1965 Arango published his book Mitos, leyendas y dioses chibchas, about the myths, legends and deities of the Muisca.Arango Cano, 1965 He also wrote about the Quimbaya, Calima and other indigenous groups, not only of Colombia, but also about the Aztec and Incas. Arango published about the Eje Cafetero, the coffee region in central Colombia where he was born.
In the 1970s, Arango Cano followed his father and became an archaeologist. In 1974 his work Las esmeraldas sagradas: el tesoro de Furatena about Furatena, mythological figure for the Muzo people was published.
On 23 May 1980, Arango Cano together with other historians founded the Academia de Historia del Quindío.
Jesús Arango Cano has published mainly in Spanish and also in English and German.List of works by Jesús Arango Cano – WorldCat
Arango Cano died in Armenia, Quindío, on 9 January 2015, at age 99.
Works This list is a selection. List of books by Jesús Arango Cano List of articles by Jesús Arango Cano
Books 1951 – INMIGRANTES PARA COLOMBIA 1953 – Inmigración y colonización en la Grancolombia 1955 – Geografía física y económica de Colombia 1957 – La industria mundial del cafe 1959 – Estados Unidos, mito y realidad 1960 – VERDADES AMARGAS SOBRE LA DEMOCRACIA 1962 – Capitalismo, comunismo y libertad 1967 – GEOGRAFIA Y ECONOMICA DEL QUINDIO 1967 – REVALUACION DE LAS ANTIGUAS CULTURAS ABORIGENES DE COLOMBIA 1969 – Diálogos cafeteros 1970 – LA EUROPA QUE YO VI 1971 – Cuentos y anécdotas de mi tierra 1972 – LOS HEROES LLORAN EN LA OBSCURIDAD 1971 – ABORIGENES LEGENDARIOS Y DIOSES CHIBCHAS 1974 – Las esmeraldas sagradas: el tesoro de Furatena 1974 – EL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL EN COLOMBIA DESDE LA CONQUISTA HASTA HOY 1976 – Cerámica quimbaya y calima 1976 – MI GRAN AVENTURA COSMICA 1979 – PRECOLUMBIAN CERAMICS 1985 – Las dos caras de Estados Unidos 1987 – MITOS LEYENDAS Y DIOSES CHIBCHAS 1987 – MI MUNDO INTERIOR 1989 – Mitología en América precolombina : México-aztecas, Colombia-chibchas, Perú-incas 1989 – EMOCIONES DEL ALMA 1991 – Fantasías del corazón 1992 – LOS CAMINOS DEL ENSUEÑO 1994 – LA GRAN CULTURA QUIMBAYA 1994 – DICCIONARIO BACANO 1996 – Cuentos y relatos de la vida real 1996 – CAMINOS ILUMINADOS POEMAS 1997 – MIS REFLEXIONES 2000 – APUNTES PARA LA HISTORIA DEL QUINDIO 2001 – ENSAYO SOBRE EL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL Y EL LIBRO 2002– ORIGEN Y DESARROLLO DEL CAMINO DEL QUINDIO
– HUSOS, SELLOS Y RODILLOS – ABORIGENES LEGENDARIOS DE COLOMBIA – CAPITALISMO CONSUMISMO Y LIBERTAD – DIALOGOS CAFETEROS
Articles 2000 – Y hablando de ortografía 1999 – En defensa de la gramática y a propósito de la "ch" y la "ll" 1997 – Cervantes, don Quijote y el amor 1979 – La dimensión espacial de la crisis en España
See also
List of Muisca scholars Muisca
References
Notable works by Arango Cano