When Oscar Humberto Horta Torres was born on 28 July 1948, in Antofagasta, Chile, his father, Oscar Enrique Horta Gomes, was 26 and his mother, Elsa Yolanda Torres Pinto, was 26. He died on 11 July 2005, in his hometown, at the age of 56.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Roberto, Jesus, Manuel, Miguel, Armando, Arturo, Orlando, Pablo, Ricardo.
Catalan and Portuguese: from horta ‘garden’ (from Latin hortus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosed garden or a metonymic occupational name for a gardener.
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