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Ecuador – A Long Life

Maria Esther Heredia Lecaro de Capovilla was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the 14th of September 1889.  She died on the 27th of August 2006.  She died at 116 years, 347 days old.  
Guinness World Records stated that she was the world’s oldest living person from the 29th of May 2004 to the time of her death in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

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