Luis Quinche

Quinche was born in Guasca, Cundinamarca, and studied at the Salesian College of Leo XIII and received a degree in 1917.

His teachers included Santiago Cortés, Apolinar María and Ricardo Lleras Codazzi.

He studied botany from the works of Andrés Posada Arango, Joaquín Antonio Uribe and Francisco Vergara and Velasco.

He joined the ministry of industries in 1927 and was posted to the plant health office to study pests affecting coffee and soon became the head of entomology service.

[1][2] Quinche married Isabel Pulido Cárdenas and they had three daughters one of whom was the botanist María Teresa.