Botero

It is an occupational surname that originated in the Middle Ages, around the year 500 CE, during which time people (coopers) made barrels for the storage and transportation of liquids and solids such as wine, water, honey, gunpowder, grains, salt and sugar.

[3] This surname arrived in today's Republic of Colombia, in the 18th century, after the arrival of the Genoese Giovanni Andrea Botero Bernavi (Juan Andrés, in Spanish) from Cádiz, Spain to the city of Cartagena de Indias, Viceroyalty of New Granada around the year 1715, who worked in the service of the Spanish Crown as naval gunner of the Santa Rosa ship,[5] built in the Republic of Genoa for King Philip V of Bourbon.

Right there, he married Doña Antonia Mejía Somoano, on June 26, 1719, thus founding the Botero family in Colombia, a country where this surname has the largest number of descendants at the present time.

[12] Fernando Botero has residences in the cities of New York, Paris and also in the municipality of Pietrasanta, region of Tuscany, Italy, a town where artworks of his authorship are exhibited.

Among women, one of the most notable people is the actress and presenter María Cecilia Botero, who has been recognized as one of the great artists and symbols of television in Colombia for decades.