What is "palomo"

Palomo is a Chilean stratovolcano located in the Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, west of Caldera del Atuel. The volcano shows evidence of glacial dissection. It is 4860m high.

Palomo's surrounding area features spectacular granite needles called Agujas del Palomo. The volcano towers over Río de Los Cipreses National Reserve.

Palomo is a Chilean stratovolcano.

Palomo may also refer to:

• Palomo (surname)
• Palomo (horse), Simón Bolívar's horse
• Palomo (band), a Mexican band with Universal Music Latin Entertainment

Palomo was Simón Bolívar's horse. It accompanied him on most of his campaigns of national liberation. The horse was white, tall, with a tail that almost reached the ground. It was a gift from an elderly peasant woman from Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá Department, shortly before the Battle of Boyacá in 1819.

According to local lore Bolívar visited Santa Rosa in early 1814 on his way to Tunja on his way to report to the Congress of the United Provinces of New Granada on his setbacks in Venezuela. As the Liberator approached the town on a tired beast of burden, which refused to move any further. There he asked for a guide to take the animal and to lead him into town. During the walk Bolívar and the guide had a conversation in which the guide told Bolívar about his wife Casilda's dreams, especially one in which she saw herself giving a recently born colt to a famous general as a gift. The guide did not know who Bolívar was and was astonished when he learned his identity. When Bolívar made his leave at the edge of town, he smiled and told the guide, "Tell Casilda to keep the colt for me." Five years later when Bolívar returned to New Granda, he received the colt promised by Casilda in the midst of the Battle of Vargas Swamp. He named it Palomo (" cock pigeon") for its gray color. Later on his way back to Venezuela, Bolívar stopped in Santa Rosa to visit Casilda personally and thank her for the horse.

Bolívar lent Palomo to one of his officers, and it died exhausted after a grueling march in the Hacienda Mulaló, in what is today Yumbo, Valle del Cauca Department. It was buried next to the hacienda chapel by a lush, very old ceiba. Palomo's horseshoes and other effects of Bolívar are on exhibit in the Museum of Mulaló.

Palomo is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Ana Belén Palomo (born 1977), freestyle swimmer from Spain
• Eduardo Palomo (1962-2003), Mexican actor
• Tony Palomo (1931-2013), Guamanian historian and politician
• Lorenzo Palomo (born 1938), Spanish composer
• Victor Palomo, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racing driver in the 1970s
• Florencio Palomo Valencia, Governor of Yucatán (1936–1938)
• Víctor Mena Palomo, Governor of Yucatán (1953–1958)