Simon patino biography

Simón Iturri Patiño (1 June – 20 April ) was a Bolivianindustrialist who was among the world's wealthiest people at the time of his death. With a fortune built from ownership of a majority of the tin industry in Bolivia, Patiño was nicknamed "The Andean Rockefeller".

Patiño, Simón Iturri (1860–1947) |

During World War II, Patiño was believed to be one of the five wealthiest men in the world.^[3]

Biography

Patiño's biographers are not in agreement on the details of his early life. Many wrote that he was a cholo, with a mixed Quechua and Spanish heritage, and born to a poor mother,^[4] while his authorized biography holds that he was solely of European ancestry, and the son of a provincial leader.

He was actually the illegitimate son of Julio Abasto and María Patiño from Cochabamba. Before entering the mining industry, he either managed a store in Oruro, or spent years in private schools.

Eventually, Patiño started in mining with Compañía Huanchaca de Bolivia, a silver c Simón Iturri Patiño - Wikiwand PASO