Pablo Acosta Ortiz Square

It bears the name and bust over a marble pedestal of the highest exponent of Venezuelan medicine the famous doctor, Pablo Acosta Ortiz.

It is said that in its former location, General José Antonio Páez shot four slaves and several members of the Reform Revolution were executed there.

He was born on March 21, 1864, in a house in the city of Barquisimeto, he lived there throughout his childhood and adolescence until 1895 when he decided to study medicine at the University of Caracas, his parents being lawyers Pablo Acosta and Doña Benigna Ortiz.

He returned to Barquisimeto and together with Antonio María Pineda they made the 'La Caridad' hospital, a center for the study and practice of medicine in the region.

He developed a great activity in the field of medicine, standing out as a writer in the surgery section of the Gaceta Médica de Caracas (1993-1895), through whose pages he disseminated the latest advances in surgery, which led Dr. Plácido Rodríguez, rector of the Central University of Venezuela: 'He is the most eminent of our modern surgeons.'