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Francisca Castillo Carrillo
Francisca Castillo Carrillo
Birth: 3 November 1906
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Death: 20 December 2016
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Age: 110 years, 47 days
Country: Costa RicaCRI
Unvalidated

Maria Francisca Isolina Castillo Carrillo [Spanish: María] (3 November 1906 – 20 December 2016) was a Costa Rican supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Costa Rica.

Biography[]

Maria Francisca Isolina Castillo Carillo was born in Matina, Guanacaste, Costa Rica as the daughter of Tomas Castillo, a Cuban immigrant. Francisca had her first son, Paul, at the age of 15 and later had four more children. She said that she never married or lived together with a man for any longer period of time because they would get violent while drunk.

She became the oldest known living person in Costa Rica, following the death of 110-year-old Celina Fernandez-Pacheco on 16 October 2016.

Francisca Castillo lived in Mansion, Guanacaste and became a great-great-great-great-grandmother at the age of 106 in 2013. She died on 20 December 2016, at the age of 110 years, 47 days. Her son Pablo Castillo Castillo (born 29 June 1922) turned 98 in June 2020.

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Costa Rica's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Antonio Ardon Soto • Unknown • Rosalina Vargas SolanoFaustino Vargas Perez • Unknown • Josefina Quiros SotoCelina Fernandez-PachecoFrancisca Castillo CarrilloLidia Menis PeresiniClaudia Soto SaborioMarita Camacho Quiros

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