Francisco de Arango y Parreño
Francisco de Arango y Parreño | |
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Portrait by Isidoro Salcedo y Echevarría. Lithograph in Rubio, Grilo y Vituri Biblioteca Nacional de España. | |
| Born | 22 May 1765 Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire |
| Died | 21 March 1837 (aged 71) Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire |
| Nationality | Cuban |
| Alma mater | Universidad de La Habana |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, writer |
Francisco de Arango y Parreño (1765–1837) was a Cuban planter and intellectual. He helped to oversee colonial Cuba's transformation into a major sugar and coffee producer in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.