List of mayors of Valledupar

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Valledupar, Colombia. (Spanish: Alcaldes de Valledupar)

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Term	Mayor	Notes
c. 1550	Emilio de la Cruz	Valledupar founded in 1550 by Hernando de Santana and accompanied by Juan de Castellanos
	Cristobal de Almonacid
1576	Lope de Orozco[1]
1806 - 1813	Marqués de Valde-Hoyos[2]
1826	José Manuel Martinez[2]
1906	Moisés Martínez[3]
1955	Jorge Dangond Daza[4]
1963	Jaime Dangon Ovalle[5]
September 13, 1966 - December 16, 1967	Jose Guillermo Castro Castro[3]
1967	Manuel German Cuello
September 21, 1968	Jaime Calderon Bruges
August 22, 1970	Jorge Dangond Daza
June 19, 1971	Edgardo Pupo Pupo
August 20, 1974	Miguel Meza Valera
1975	Jaime Calderon Bruges
1977	Camilo Lacouture Dangond
1978	Guillermo Castro Mejia
1978	Miguel Gnecco Hernandez
1981	Maria Clara Quintero de Daza
1982	Alfredo Cuello Davila
1986	Fausto Cotes Núñez[6]
July 10, 1990 - May 31, 1992	Aníbal Martínez Zuleta	Former Controller General of Colombia, jailed on January 29, 1985 for corruption. Elected mayor with 29,542 votes
1992 - 1994	Rodolfo Campo Soto	First popularly elected mayor of Valledupar
January 1, 1995 - December 31, 1997	Johnny Perez Oñate[7]
1998 - 2000	Rodolfo Campo Soto[7]
January 1, 2001 - December 31, 2004	Elias Ochoa Daza
January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2007	Ciro Arturo Pupo Castro[8]	Won with 42,889 votes against Jose Calixto Mejia 31,335 votes.
January 1, 2008–Present	Ruben Carvajal

See also

• List of Governors of the Cesar Department

Notes

1. ^ Gutierrez Hinojosa 2000, p. 27
2. ^ ^{a b} Castro Trespalacios 1979, p. 209
3. ^ ^{a b} (Spanish) El Pilon: Valledupar: a vast territory
4. ^ (Spanish) Valledupar.com: Symbols
5. ^ "El Cesar, Hijo del Amor". Jaime Dangon Ovalle. First Edition. November 1987.
6. ^ (Spanish) Encuentro Internacional Medellin - Practicas artisticas contemporaneas: Tarima 'Francisco El Hombre' de Valledupar podría ser demolida por invadir el espacio público
7. ^ ^{a b} (Spanish) INCODER: ROdolfo Campo Soto
8. ^ (Spanish) intervallenato.com: Ciro Pupo, Mayor - Hernando Molina, Governor

References

• Gutierrez Hinojosa, Tomas Dario (2000), Valledupar Musica de una Historia, Bogota: Editorial Grijalbo LTDA, ISBN 958-639175-2 
• Castro Trespalacios, Pedro (1979), Culturas Aborigenes Cesarences e Independencia de Valle de Upar, Bogota: Casa de la Cultura de Valledupar 

External links

• (Spanish) Government of Valledupar