Gonzalo Correal Urrego (Gachalá, Colombia, 23 October 1939) is a Colombian anthropologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist.

[3] He has collaborated with many other anthropologists and archaeologists, among others Thomas van der Hammen and Ana María Groot.

[4] Gonzalo Correal Urrego was born in the village of Gachalá, in the eastern part of the Colombian department of Cundinamarca.

Correal went on to study anthropology and law and political sciences simultaneously at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia and Universidad Libre respectively.

[1] In 2007 Correal Urrego received recognition for his forty-year career at the Universidad Nacional with the Vida y Obra award.