Ágatha Blumenthal, also known by the Spanish name Águeda Flores (1541, Talagante – Santiago, August 1632), was a mixed-race Chilean landowner, daughter of Bartolomé Blumenthal and the Inca Princess Elvira of Talagante (daughter of the respected chief Tala Canta Ilabe) and grandmother to Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer (La Quintrala).
Águeda owned large portions of land in Talagante, Quilicura, Peñalolén, Cauquenes and Putagán, making her the richest woman of the colonial period in Chile.Mujeres de Chile: Águeda Flores|Mujeres de Chile: Águeda Flores
See also
Bartolomé Blumenthal Bartholomeus Blumenthal Welzer (Bartolomé Flores in Spanish) accompanied Pedro de Valdivia in the Conquest of Chile.
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