The Oldest Person In The World Is 121 Years Old

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Can you imagine the stories that could be accumulated in 121 years?

Celino Villanueva Jaramillo, a Chilean born in 1896, is the proof of the oldest person in the world. Don Celino, as his caretakers call him, has lived for three centuries, according to his citizenship card.

Don Celino, who lives near the southern city of Valdivia, does not hold the title of being the world's longest-serving person in the Guinness Book of Records because he lost his original birth certificate when his house burned down 20 years ago, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.

But according to his identity document, Villanueva is four years older than Nabi Tajima, the person who holds the Guinness record to date.

Still, there is no person in your country who doubts the validity of your date of birth. On the occasion of his 115th birthday, Don Celino received at his house in 2011 the then President Sebastián Piñera and the Minister of Justice, Joaquín Lavín, who gave him his new identity card last year.

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Don Celino worked as a farmer for most of his life. At 80 years old, the person he was working for at the time fired him, thanked him and said he would be replaced by a younger worker. In addition, he asked him to vacate the property where he lived.

Later, Villanueva moved to the town of Mehuín with the small pension that his work had left him and he helped himself by growing and selling vegetables.

After the fire that took away all his belongings, at 99 years of age, Don Celino was sheltered by Marta Ramírez, in whose care he is currently.

Villanueva was born in the city of Río Bueno, 30 kilometers south of Valdivia, in 1896. That same year - the Guardian recalled - the first Olympiad was held, Ford produced its first vehicle and Utah officially became a state of the United States.