Concepción Cintrón Verrill, also known as Conchita Cintrón or La Diosa de Oro ('The Golden Goddess') [1] (August 9, 1922, in Antofagasta – February 17, 2009, in Lisbon), was a Chile-born Peruvian torera (female bullfighter), perhaps the most famous in the history of bullfighting.

[3] By the time she was three years old, the family had moved to Lima, Peru, where she grew up, learned to ride, and began her career as a bullfighter.

In Lima, Cintrón rode her first pony at three, and joined the riding school of the Portuguese rejoneador Ruy da Câmara, an immigrant to Peru, at 11.

Her popularity in Spain was also great, and eventually officials there found ways around the laws; she did sometimes fight on foot at charity events not open to the public.

The Spanish prohibition against women matadors was said to be motivated more by the possibility they would have to be partially uncovered before the crowd in the event of a cornada (goring) than as a precaution for their safety (this was during the government of Francisco Franco).

After performing on horseback with the bull, Cintrón rode to the box of the presidente and asked for permission to dismount for the kill.

Cintrón walked calmly away from the bull and was arrested as she left the ring, for violating the law banning women from fighting on foot.

As Orson Welles wrote in the introduction to her memoirs, her career "ended in a single burst of glorious criminality.

Having registered the kennel with the name Al-Gharb, Conchita, taking advantage of her extensive contacts in North American high-society publicized the breed in the US with great success.

In 1975 and as a consequence of the 25th of April Revolution, Quinta do Índio was occupied by workers and radical leftist supporters who drove out the family.

[4] With the occupation of the property, Cintrón and family left Portugal and went into exile in Mexico until the end of the eighties.