Countries of birth and residence of Top 10:

BRA 5
COL 3
PRY 1
VEN 1

Top 10 South-American Oldest Living Men (as of 5th March 2025)
(documented or partially documented)
Today's update (Mr. Alvarino Thomas turned 111)

1. João Marinho Neto (b. 5 October 1912), 112  Brazil World's Oldest Living Man
2. Josino Levino Ferreira (b. 3 April 1913), 111  Brazil
3. Julio Saldarriaga Hernandez (b. 3 November 1913), 111  Colombia
4. Armando Alvarino Thomas (b. 5 March 1914), 111  Colombia (pending)
5. Primo Olivieri (b. 7 March 1914), 110  Brazil
6. Francisco Ernesto Filho (b. 5 April 1914), 110  Brazil
7. Benvindo Ferreira de Oliveira (b. 10 August 1914), 110  Brazil
8. Virgilio Davalos Rey (b. 8 October 1914), 110 🇵🇾 Paraguay
9. Adolfo Camacho Ripoll (b. 13 April 1915), 109   Colombia
10. Pedro María Molina Márquez (b. 27 April 1915), 109 🇻🇪 Venezuela

Top 10 South-American Oldest Living Men (as of 7th March 2025)
(documented or partially documented)
Today's update (Mr. Olivieri turned 111)

1. João Marinho Neto (b. 5 October 1912), 112  Brazil World's Oldest Living Man
2. Josino Levino Ferreira (b. 3 April 1913), 111  Brazil
3. Julio Saldarriaga Hernandez (b. 3 November 1913), 111  Colombia
4. Armando Alvarino Thomas (b. 5 March 1914), 111  Colombia (pending)
5. Primo Olivieri (b. 7 March 1914), 111  Brazil
6. Francisco Ernesto Filho (b. 5 April 1914), 110  Brazil
7. Benvindo Ferreira de Oliveira (b. 10 August 1914), 110  Brazil
8. Virgilio Davalos Rey (b. 8 October 1914), 110 🇵🇾 Paraguay
9. Adolfo Camacho Ripoll (b. 13 April 1915), 109   Colombia
10. Pedro María Molina Márquez (b. 27 April 1915), 109 🇻🇪 Venezuela

Top 10 South-American Oldest Living Men (as of 27th March 2025)
(documented or partially documented)
Today's update (RIP Mr. Ferreira de Oliveira)

1. João Marinho Neto (b. 5 October 1912), 112  Brazil World's Oldest Living Man
2. Josino Levino Ferreira (b. 3 April 1913), 111  Brazil
3. Julio Saldarriaga Hernandez (b. 3 November 1913), 111  Colombia
4. Armando Alvarino Thomas (b. 5 March 1914), 111  Colombia (pending)
5. Primo Olivieri (b. 7 March 1914), 111  Brazil
6. Francisco Ernesto Filho (b. 5 April 1914), 110  Brazil
7. Virgilio Davalos Rey (b. 8 October 1914), 110 🇵🇾 Paraguay
8. Adolfo Camacho Ripoll (b. 13 April 1915), 109   Colombia
9. Pedro María Molina Márquez (b. 27 April 1915), 109 🇻🇪 Venezuela
10. Pasión de Jesús Guerrero Galvis (b. 5 August 1915), 109   Colombia (pending)

Countries of birth and residence of Top 10:

BRA 4
COL 4
PRY 1
VEN 1

Benvindo is the 22nd oldest man in the history of Brazil, he was the oldest living man in the state of Minas Gerais, the 88th oldest person in the history of Brazil.

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Benvindo is the 22nd oldest man in the history of Brazil, he was the oldest living man in the state of Minas Gerais, the 88th oldest person in the history of Brazil.

I suspect that Latin American countries, such as Brazil, have many verifiable past SC claims which we simply currently don't know about. Even I was able to discover a previously unknown verifiable Brazilian male SC named Manoel Ogero Dias Junior (1899-2009) through Find-A-Grave, after all.

Top 10 South-American Oldest Living Men (as of 4th April 2025)
(documented or partially documented)
Today's update (Mr. Levino Ferreira turned 112)

1. João Marinho Neto (b. 5 October 1912), 112  Brazil World's Oldest Living Man
2. Josino Levino Ferreira (b. 3 April 1913), 112  Brazil
3. Julio Saldarriaga Hernandez (b. 3 November 1913), 111  Colombia
4. Armando Alvarino Thomas (b. 5 March 1914), 111  Colombia (pending)
5. Primo Olivieri (b. 7 March 1914), 111  Brazil
6. Francisco Ernesto Filho (b. 5 April 1914), 110  Brazil
7. Virgilio Davalos Rey (b. 8 October 1914), 110 🇵🇾 Paraguay
8. Adolfo Camacho Ripoll (b. 13 April 1915), 109   Colombia
9. Pedro María Molina Márquez (b. 27 April 1915), 109 🇻🇪 Venezuela
10. Pasión de Jesús Guerrero Galvis (b. 5 August 1915), 109   Colombia (pending)

This list started being published here this year, so it's been a short time, but it's the first time with 2 112+

Would this be the first time since 2006 that Brazil has two simultaneously living verifiable 112+ year-old men? (Assuming that Anisio Rodrigues Alves and Maximiliano Jose dos Santos will both get verified in the future?)

Top 10 South-American Oldest Living Men (as of 10th April 2025)
(documented or partially documented)
Today's update (Mr. Filho turned 111)

1. João Marinho Neto (b. 5 October 1912), 112  Brazil World's Oldest Living Man
2. Josino Levino Ferreira (b. 3 April 1913), 112  Brazil
3. Julio Saldarriaga Hernandez (b. 3 November 1913), 111  Colombia
4. Armando Alvarino Thomas (b. 5 March 1914), 111  Colombia (pending)
5. Primo Olivieri (b. 7 March 1914), 111  Brazil
6. Francisco Ernesto Filho (b. 5 April 1914), 111  Brazil
7. Virgilio Davalos Rey (b. 8 October 1914), 110 🇵🇾 Paraguay
8. Adolfo Camacho Ripoll (b. 13 April 1915), 109   Colombia
9. Pedro María Molina Márquez (b. 27 April 1915), 109 🇻🇪 Venezuela
10. Pasión de Jesús Guerrero Galvis (b. 5 August 1915), 109   Colombia (pending)

Colombia looks like it has decent odds of getting another validated 112+ year-old man less than a year from now!

And I hope that Venezuela will have its second validated male SC very soon! 🙂

Others will know more about South America than I, as a whole.

The Brazilian domination is easy enough to justify given its nearly 50% of the combined SA population - and the latitudes of the country appear favourable.

Colombia is second and Argentina 3rd, both close to one eighth of the SA population - but certainly in the male category Colombia has been “off the charts” in terms of performance - albeit on reasonably low numbers.

The major difference between these two countries is logically climate based given their respective geopraphical positions.

But I’d be interested to know if any of our South American experts have any further thoughts in this regard.

What's interesting is that Venezuela and Peru don't have a super-strong overall male SC performance, but do have a very strong top male SC performance, even better than Colombia's. But Colombia performs better overall.

Of course, Puerto Rico has also been one to impress, especially given its small population. 5 111+ year-old men (not simultaneously, of course) and 2 113+ year-old men (again, not simultaneously).

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What's interesting is that Venezuela and Peru don't have a super-strong overall male SC performance, but do have a very strong top male SC performance, even better than Colombia's. But Colombia performs better overall.

Of course, Puerto Rico has also been one to impress, especially given its small population. 5 111+ year-old men (not simultaneously, of course) and 2 113+ year-old men (again, not simultaneously).

I do apologize for bringing up Puerto Rico here, since it's not a South American country (though it is a Latin American country).

For some reason, the southern cone South American countries (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay) don't have that strong of an extreme male longevity performance.

Though there are a lot of unknown variables because a lot of past verifiable Latin American male SCs, including South American ones, are almost certainly still unknown right now.

Climate logically plays something of a role for the first 2 - and its worth remembering that Uruguay only has circa 3.5 million people.

Posted by: @chrisr

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Climate logically plays something of a role for the first 2 - and its worth remembering that Uruguay only has circa 3.5 million people.

Is climate decisive, though? I mean, Scandinavia had many more male SCs than the southern cone of Latin America had, though again, it's possible that some or even many of the southern cone's past male SCs are still undiscovered.

Despite the wonderful work, initially from the LAS team and LQ following, I think there are probably still some strong historic longevity cases - covering both sexes - that will become known in time.

Posted by: @chrisr

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Despite the wonderful work, initially from the LAS team and LQ following, I think there are probably still some strong historic longevity cases - covering both sexes - that will become known in time.

Anisio I think is the big one that will likely be validated in the future (his first marriage record lists his age as 23, so he'd have needed to steal a hypothetical elder brother's identity before then), but Yeah, I think that there are at least several verifiable past 113+ year-old men from Latin America who are currently unknown. Possibly 113+ year-old women as well. Though Latin America performs especially strongly with its men.

I also don't believe that Latin America had just two verifiable 1800s-born men (Horacio Celi Mendoza and Mauro Ambriz Tapia) at the start of the 2010s. I almost certainly suspect that there were more of them. It's just a matter of finding and uncovering them.

Posted by: @futurist

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Posted by: @chrisr

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Despite the wonderful work, initially from the LAS team and LQ following, I think there are probably still some strong historic longevity cases - covering both sexes - that will become known in time.

Anisio I think is the big one that will likely be validated in the future (his first marriage record lists his age as 23, so he'd have needed to steal a hypothetical elder brother's identity before then).

 

If a younger brother had stolen his identity at some point before 1916, I highly doubt that he would have reported the age (23) that correctly corresponded with Anísio's December 1892 birthdate. Church marriage records include the person's self-reported age at the time of marriage, rather than it being based on a document like a birth record or ID card, so Anísio had to have known his age by memory when the priest asked him how old he was. Of course, someone could just argue that this hypothetical younger brother memorized how old the real Anísio was supposed to be at the time of his marriage in order to better sell the fraud, but that would be a ridiculous amount of commitment for something that already had no actual motive in the first place, since there's absolutely nothing to be gained for someone to steal an older sibling's identity in their late teens/early 20s. His younger siblings have also been accounted for, so there isn't really anyone in his immediate family who could have stolen the identity. There's also the much more common occurrence of a younger sibling accidentally assuming the identity of a deceased older sibling with the same name, but that can be ruled out in this case both due to his parents never registering or baptizing another child named Anísio, as well as the fact that we know he was claiming to be born in 1892 in 1916.

Because of this, there was actually a bigger concern over whether some sort of identity theft happened long after the 1916 marriage, sometime after the death of his first wife, since he's listed as being alive in her 1936 death record. This would have required that the Anísio born in 1892 went missing at some point, and had his identity stolen by someone else, either without anyone in his family noticing, or with everyone in his family agreeing to go along with it - both scenarios are insane, since he didn't leave his place of birth until the 1960s (after he had been married and widowed for a second time), and pretty much everyone in the town knew him either as an architect or musician, so people would have immediately noticed if he went missing and reappeared as a completely different person. 

Even after years of researching him, I still sometimes question his case due to its significance and his remarkably good shape for being 116: he could still walk around his home completely unaided with a cane even just a few months before his death, and he died from complications of cancer (not particularly common for a SC). After seeing videos of him at 116, I can safely say that his physical and cognitive strength exceeded even people like Jeralean Talley and Violet Brown at the same age. However, I feel like I've gone over basically every single scenario that I can think of that could have hypothetically allowed for an identity theft to have occurred, but the paper trail from his birth to his later years is so strong that anything short of a vast conspiracy is insufficient to truly poke holes in it. His longevity genes were apparently so strong that it was inherited by two of his daughters from his first marriage, who are still alive in 2025 at the ages of 101 and 104, and were still able to walk and even dance as of last year. I really hope that he can be validated at some point in the future, but his case would probably be the most significant SC validation ever, as his acceptance would instantly dethrone multiple formerly recognized WOP titleholders, and completely rewrite the history of the oldest man ever, so it's definitely not something that should be taken lightly. However, I'm fairly confident that family cooperation could make it happen.

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Posted by: @futurist

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Posted by: @chrisr

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Despite the wonderful work, initially from the LAS team and LQ following, I think there are probably still some strong historic longevity cases - covering both sexes - that will become known in time.

Anisio I think is the big one that will likely be validated in the future (his first marriage record lists his age as 23, so he'd have needed to steal a hypothetical elder brother's identity before then).

 

If a younger brother had stolen his identity at some point before 1916, I highly doubt that he would have reported the age (23) that correctly corresponded with Anísio's December 1892 birthdate. Church marriage records include the person's self-reported age at the time of marriage, rather than it being based on a document like a birth record or ID card, so Anísio had to have known his age by memory when the priest asked him how old he was. Of course, someone could just argue that this hypothetical younger brother memorized how old the real Anísio was supposed to be at the time of his marriage in order to better sell the fraud, but that would be a ridiculous amount of commitment for something that already had no actual motive in the first place, since there's absolutely nothing to be gained for someone to steal an older sibling's identity in their late teens/early 20s. His younger siblings have also been accounted for, so there isn't really anyone in his immediate family who could have stolen the identity. There's also the much more common occurrence of a younger sibling accidentally assuming the identity of a deceased older sibling with the same name, but that can be ruled out in this case both due to his parents never registering or baptizing another child named Anísio, as well as the fact that we know he was claiming to be born in 1892 in 1916.

Because of this, there was actually a bigger concern over whether some sort of identity theft happened long after the 1916 marriage, sometime after the death of his first wife, since he's listed as being alive in her 1936 death record. This would have required that the Anísio born in 1892 went missing at some point, and had his identity stolen by someone else, either without anyone in his family noticing, or with everyone in his family agreeing to go along with it - both scenarios are insane, since he didn't leave his place of birth until the 1960s (after he had been married and widowed for a second time), and pretty much everyone in the town knew him either as an architect or musician, so people would have immediately noticed if he went missing and reappeared as a completely different person. 

Even after years of researching him, I still sometimes question his case due to its significance and his remarkably good shape for being 116: he could still walk around his home completely unaided with a cane even just a few months before his death, and he died from complications of cancer (not particularly common for a SC). After seeing videos of him at 116, I can safely say that his physical and cognitive strength exceeded even people like Jeralean Talley and Violet Brown at the same age. However, I feel like I've gone over basically every single scenario that I can think of that could have hypothetically allowed for an identity theft to have occurred, but the paper trail from his birth to his later years is so strong that anything short of a vast conspiracy is insufficient to truly poke holes in it. His longevity genes were apparently so strong that it was inherited by two of his daughters from his first marriage, who are still alive in 2025 at the ages of 101 and 104, and were still able to walk and even dance as of last year. I really hope that he can be validated at some point in the future, but his case would probably be the most significant SC validation ever, as his acceptance would instantly dethrone multiple formerly recognized WOP titleholders, and completely rewrite the history of the oldest man ever, so it's definitely not something that should be taken lightly. However, I'm fairly confident that family cooperation could make it happen.

 

Makes one wonder just how far Anisio could have gone had he not died of prostate cancer, such as due to him purely hypothetically getting a prostatectomy in his younger years. Of course, his GerWiki article also says that he had diabetes and heart problems in his extremely old age, but these didn't necessarily have to be immediately fatal for him even at age 116.5+ without his prostate cancer.

It's not impossible for a man to be able to walk at age 116. I mean, Walter Breuning was still able to walk with a walker at age 114.5 and had blood circulation problems and the resulting complications (presbyesophagus and inanition) not killed him shortly afterwards, I could imagine him still walking at age 115+ had he actually managed to live that long. Ditto for Joan Riudavets had a cold not killed him at age 114.

When the evidence in favor of Anisio's age is this solid, then I don't think that it's very likely that he was not the age claimed. Think of another case: Delphia Welford. It would be extraordinarily to claim age 111 and actually be age 116+, and yet this is what the lion's share of the early-life evidence in regards to Delphia's case indicates, with identity switch being ruled out by her 1885 and 1892 school census entries. And of course she also had a notable history of huge age deflation among her immediate family members. It just seemed much more extreme in her own case due to just how long she herself actually managed to live. Ditto for Anisio--except he did not deflate his age later on in his life. Or for some other SCs, such as Jeanne Calment, Sarah Knauss, or Kane Tanaka. Or for, say, Christian Mortensen, who is an extraordinarily massive outlier (over five years) for Danish-born men.

Another thing worth noting in regards to Anisio is that he might have had an excellent ancestral combination for extreme longevity: Possibly Iberian, perhaps Native American, and almost certainly black. Here in the US, African-Americans have an advantage when it comes to extreme longevity. This appears to be similar in the Americas outside of the US as well, with Violet Brown and, for men, Anisio, Tomas Pinales Figuereo, and James Sisnett.

It’s always a difficult one; validating an age that sets a new record for either sex.

Just in that regard though, Anisio is no male Calment.

Were he verified, then within 5 years, Jiroemon Kimura would reach circa 99.6% of Anisio’s lifespan and even the new mark he would be validated at only added roughly 1 year to the previous mark of Christian Mortensen. 

You're right that Anisio is no male Calment. A male Calment would live to around age 119. However, Anisio is a male Knauss or Tanaka, or even slightly above that, since his age would be roughly equivalent to age 119.6 for women.