Manuel María Paz Delgado (1820 – 1902) was a Colombian cartographer, military officer, artist and watercolorist.

[1][2] Manuel María Paz Delgado was born June 6, 1820, in the town of Almaguer, Cauca, Viceroyalty of New Granada.

[2] After studying literature in his native Amaguer and still being quite young, he moved to Popayán to serve as a soldier in the Guardia Nacional, on December 29, 1839.

[2] In 1853 he joined the Comisión Corográfica to work as an artist with Henry Price, who later retired from the project for reasons of health.

[1] After an exhausting but productive life, Manual María Paz Delgado died on September 16, 1902, in the parish of San Victorino in Bogotá.