Dolores Gangotena
{{short description|Ecuadorian First Lady}}
{{family name hatnote|de Gangotena|y Jijón|lang=Spanish}}
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|name=Dolores Gangotena
|image=Dolores_Gangotena_de_Ponce-Enríquez_(ca.1950).jpg
|caption=Dolores Gangotena circa 1950
|office=First Lady of Ecuador
|term_label=In role
|term_start=September 1, 1956
|term_end=August 31, 1960
|predecessor=Corina del Parral
|successor=Corina del Parral
|president=Camilo Ponce Enríquez
|birth_date=
|death_place=Quito, Ecuador
|death_date=
|occupation=Conservationist
|spouse={{marriage|Camilo Ponce Enríquez|1940|1976|end=d.}}
|children={{unbulleted list|Camilo|Enrique|Margarita|Inés Clara|Dolores}}
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Dolores Marta Gracia de Gangotena y Jijón was an Ecuadorian art collector, conservationist. She was First Lady of Ecuador to Camilo Ponce Enríquez from 16 September 1956 to 31 August 1960.
Biography
Dolores Gangotena was born in Quito, the second of four children born to Enrique Gangotena y Jijón and Dolores de Jijón y Ascázubi. Through her mother, Gangotena was related to Juan de Salinas y Zenitagoya and Javier de Ascázubi, heroes of the war for Ecuador's independence. In 1940, Gangotena married Camilo Ponce Enríquez.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
Despite prejudices of the times and the opposition of her father, Gangotena entered university and studied fine arts. The collection of pre-Columbian and Colonial-era Ecuadorian art became her passion.{{cite journal|title=La Herrería, una síntesis de la cultura, del arte y la naturaleza de Ecuador|journal=Numbers|location=Quito|date=August 2014|issue=4|pages=60–63|language=es}}
As First Lady of Ecuador, Gangotena was the host of Carondelet Palace and attended national and international functions for her husband's government. Because the Carondelet Palace was undergoing remodeling, many of those functions were held at the {{ill|Gangotena Palace|es|Palacio Gangotena}} on the Plaza de San Francisco in Quito,{{cite web|title=Conozca cómo es el bello e histórico hotel Casa Gangotena|url=http://noticiasquito.gob.ec/Noticias/news_user_view/conozca_como_es_el_bello_e_historico_hotel_casa_gangotena--4974|publisher=City of Quito|date=9 November 2011|accessdate=2 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602095335/http://noticiasquito.gob.ec/Noticias/news_user_view/conozca_como_es_el_bello_e_historico_hotel_casa_gangotena--4974|archive-date=2 June 2016|language=es}} or the Hacienda La Herrería in the {{ill|Los Chillos valley|es|Valle de Los Chillos}}. Gangotena used this rural property to store most of her art collection.{{cite book|last=Ordoñez Cordero|first=Juan|title=Casa Ecuatoriana|year=2003 |publisher=Fundación Caspicara|isbn=978-9978-43-223-5|pages=105–119|language=es}}
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