{"id":"manuel-maria-orellana-contreras","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/manuel-maria-orellana-contreras","language":"en","name":"Manuel María Orellana Contreras","name_en":"Manuel María Orellana Contreras","name_ne":null,"description":"Guatemalan military personnel (1870-1940)","headline":"Guatemalan military personnel (1870-1940)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Manuel María Orellana Contreras was a Guatemalan army officer and politician, and from 17 to 31 December 1930, de facto interim President of Guatemala, after leading a coup d'état that ended Baudilio Palma's interim presidency. Palma, in turn, had been appointed president only four days earlier, when president Lázaro Chacón González suffered a stroke and was forced to resign. At the time the coup took place, Orellana Contreras was commander of the San Rafael de Matamoros Fort in Guatemala City.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"17 December 1870","date":"1870-12-17"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"El Jícaro","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984828"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"17 June 1940","date":"1940-06-17"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Barcelona","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1492"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Guatemala","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q774"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"military personnel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47064"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"president of Guatemala (17 December 1930 – 2 January 1931)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6085537","start":"1930-12-17","end":"1931-01-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Mar%C3%ADa_Orellana_Contreras","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Manuel María Orellana Contreras born?","a":"Manuel María Orellana Contreras was born on 17 December 1870 in El Jícaro."},{"q":"What positions has Manuel María Orellana Contreras held?","a":"Positions held by Manuel María Orellana Contreras include: president of Guatemala (1930–1931)."}],"related":[{"name":"Juan Antonio Martínez","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/juan-antonio-martinez"},{"name":"Alfonso Portillo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-portillo"},{"name":"Otto Pérez Molina","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/otto-perez-molina"},{"name":"Jacobo Árbenz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jacobo-arbenz"},{"name":"Álvaro Arzú","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alvaro-arzu"},{"name":"Álvaro Colom","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alvaro-colom"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/manuel-maria-orellana-contreras-505c10e6c9.jpg","width":500,"height":674,"license":"Public domain","credit":"José Emiliano Orellana","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orellanagala.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Manuel María Orellana Contreras","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Mar%C3%ADa_Orellana_Contreras","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q887902","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887902","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Orellanagala.jpg by José Emiliano Orellana (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orellanagala.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Manuel María Orellana Contreras, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Orellanagala.jpg — José Emiliano Orellana, Public domain.","cite":"\"Manuel María Orellana Contreras\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/manuel-maria-orellana-contreras. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T08:00:38Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/manuel-maria-orellana-contreras","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/manuel-maria-orellana-contreras","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/manuel-maria-orellana-contreras?lang=ne"}}