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29/09/2026 4:01 pm
Rosa Micaela Puertas Quiroga - the oldest living person in Argentina - turns 114 today! She was born on 29 September 1912 and is the oldest resident in Argentina since the death of 114-year-old Angélica Tiscornia two weeks ago.
Feliz Cumpleaños, Doña Rosa Micaela. 🌹💝
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29/09/2026 4:04 pm
Feliz Cumpleaños, Doña Rosa Micaela!
29/09/2026 4:08 pm
Happy Birthday, Ms. Puertas Quiroga! 🌻
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When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
30/09/2026 8:34 pm
https://longeviquest.com/2026/09/rosa-micaela-puertas-argentinas-oldest-person-turns-114/
Rosa Micaela Puertas, Argentina’s Oldest Person, Turns 114
Rosa Micaela Puertas, the oldest living person in Argentina, celebrated her 114th birthday yesterday in Buenos Aires.
Puertas was born in the neighborhood of Boedo of Buenos Aires City, on 29 September 1912 to parents Victoriano Puertas Herrero, a Spanish immigrant, and Rosa Quiroga López, a native of Salta Province. Her father taught her how to read, write, and do math. As a child, she worked extensively, assisting her family with everyday chores. Her father succumbed to the Spanish flu. As his final wish to protect his family from the disease, he entrusted his wife with traveling to Europe along with their five children. At the age of 9, she arrived to Castilla la Vieja in Spain.
As a young woman, she moved from Valladolid to Madrid, where she met her husband, Francisco Elbl, an Austrian pastry chef in the service of King Alfonso XIII. He had learned to make chocolate, bonbons, and pastries in Vienna and was hired at a confectionery shop in Madrid that served the kings of Spain. They met in the city and got married in March 1935. He was ten years her senior.
With the outbreak of the Civil War (1936–39), they were compelled to return to her native Argentina. Their first child had just been born, and although her husband had the opportunity to work in Austria, they perceived that all of Europe was in turmoil, on the brink of World War II, and she didn’t speak German. Advised by the Argentine embassy, they decided to return to her homeland. They left behind most of their belongings and returned to Argentina as war refugees. Drawing on his experience as a chocolatier, her husband found employment at the Noel factory in Argentina, and later at the Suchard company. There, he focused primarily on crafting recipes for Sugus candies. It was he who instructed the factory workers on how to create candied Sugus.
Following the passing of Angélica Tiscornia on 15 September 2026, she became the oldest living person in Argentina.
At the moment, she is the 9th-oldest (validated) living person in the world, and the third-oldest in South America.
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