Mexico City, Mexico.-Of Spanish descent, María Brañas was born on the distant fourth of March 1907 in San Francisco, United States. Which makes her not only a 116-year-old woman, but also the oldest person in the world.
This record was endorsed by Guinness World Records , who in January of this year named her the oldest living person in the world. Yesterday María turned another year old, surrounded by her family and they celebrated it at the Santa María del Tura geriatric residence, in Olot, a town in Catalonia, Spain.
According to the newspaper NewDirectoryThe youngest daughter of Mrs. Brañas, Rosa Moret, told local television in Catalan that “genetics” are responsible for her mother’s longevity. She clarified that she has never been to the hospital, she has never broken a bone, she is fine and has no pain.
María has reached the age of 116, lucid and capable of standing up on her own.
Maria’s story
His father was a journalist from Pamplona and his mother a Catalan housewife. When María was eight years old, her parents decided to return to Spain, but her father fell ill on the journey and later died. The girl moved with her mother and her brothers to Catalonia, where she lived the rest of her long existence.
Brañas married a doctor and they lived together as a couple for 40 years until he died at the age of 72. They had three children together, one of whom died, followed by 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
the biographyía de María in Wikipedia details that en 2000, at the age of 92, he moved into a nursing home after a bout of pneumonia. “Until her mobility became too poor, she was an active resident, she played the piano and participated in gymnastics.” maría has told that he never drank or smoked, but he ate as much as he wanted. Her longevity is luck and genetics, she has confessed
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