Malgarida or Margarita (born c. 1488) was a 16th-century black African conquistadora and the concubine and servant of Diego de Almagro.
[3] In the autmn of 1536, at an age of 48 years, she crossed the Andes from east to west at the San Francisco Pass as part of Diego de Almagro's expedition to Chile.
[2] After avenging his father in a 1541 coup d'état in which Francisco Pizarro was killed Diego Almagro II was also executed in 1542.
In 1553 Malgarida provided funds for the establishment of a chaplaincy in Convento de la Merced in Cusco where Diego Almagro, father and son, were then buried.
[3] The history of Malgarida was first exposed with some detail in the 1981 book La Mujer en el Reyno de Chile by Sor Imelda Cano Roldán, a Mercedarian religious sister who was once an assistant to Professor Jaime Eyzaguirre.