When Carlos Arce Camargo was born in 1656, in Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, his father, Capitán Bartolomé de Arce y Aguirre, was 62 and his mother, Catalina de Camargo y Escarza, was 57. He married Ana Casañas about 1689, in Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in his hometown.
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Spanish colonies around Colombia are combined into one large colony. The new colony is called the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
Bogota becomes the capital of the Spanish vice-royalty of Nueva Granada. Nueva Granada also rules Ecuador and Venezuela.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Luis, Francisco, Jesus, Manuel, Angel, Efrain, Jorge, Miguel, Ricardo.
Spanish: habitational name from Arce, a place in Cantabria and Burgos.
Basque: Castilianized form of a habitational name from Artzi (Castilian Arce), a place in Navarre, or any other place called with Basque artze ‘stony place’ (from arri ‘stone’ + the suffix -tze denoting abundance).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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