Mrs. Mercedes Asunción Brenes Estrada was born on 15 August 1910 in Jinotepe, Carazo, Nicaragua and currently lives in Reparto San Juan, Managua, Nicaragua. She is currently the oldest living person in Nicaragua and also the oldest known person ever.

At the age of 30, she married Manuel Lopez Mayorga, with whom she had 6 children (3 sons and 3 daughters). She has traveled to the United States and Costa Rica.

In August 2016, her 3 daughters were still alive: Maria, Rosario and Anita. Her daughter, Rosario de los Angeles Lopez Brenes, lived in Miami, Florida, but has visited her in Nicaragua on her 106th birthday. At that time, she also had 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.

Mercedes at 110: