Don Sancho Jimeno de Orozco y Urnieta (1640–1707) was a Spanish military officer, nobleman, landowner and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Cartagena from 1693 to 1695.
He was lord of the Castle of San Luis on the island of Tierra Bomba, a fort that he defended against French attackers during the raid on Cartagena de Indias in 1697.
After the incumbent governor of Cartegena, Don Diego de los Rios, handed over the city to the French during the raid, Urnieta was called to govern Cartagena between 1698 and 1699.
[4] They landed troops in the coast of Tierra Bomba island and laid sieged to the Castle of San Luis, preventing the arrival of reinforcements.
When he was captured, he denied to surrender the castle of San Luis de Bocachica, an action that was considered admirable by Pointis.
[5] Captured by the French, Pointis granted to Don Sancho a prison in his own farm in Isla Baru.
The recognized Colombian writer of the 19th century Soledad Acosta de Samper, who wrote an emotive love story of Don Sancho to his wife during the Raid of Cartagena; and the poet Alvaro Miranda, who in 1982 wrote the poem Indiada, los escritos de Don Sancho Jimeno.