Ricardo Zuloaga

{{Short description|Venezuelan engineer, businessman and philanthropist}} {{Infobox person | name = Ricardo Zuloaga | image = Ricado Zuloaga 2013 000.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = September 22, 1867 | birth_place = Caracas, Venezuela | death_date = December 15, 1932 | death_place = Caracas, Venezuela | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = Central University of Venezuela | employer = | occupation = Businessman | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = Nicomedes Zuloaga Aguirre<br/>Anita Tovar y Tovar | relatives = }} '''Ricardo Zuloaga''' (1867-1932) was a Venezuelan engineer, businessman and philanthropist.

==Early life== Zuloaga was born on September 22, 1867, in Caracas, Venezuela.<ref name="govzuloaga">{{cite web|title=Zuloaga Tovar, Ricardo|url=http://www.ivic.gob.ve/memoria/bios/zuloaga_tovar_ricardo.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222034632/http://www.ivic.gob.ve/memoria/bios/zuloaga_tovar_ricardo.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 22, 2013|website=Government of Venezuela|accessdate=March 23, 2016}}</ref> He graduated from the Central University of Venezuela, where he studied engineering.<ref name="govzuloaga"/>

==Career== Zuloaga was the founder and CEO of Electricidad de Caracas.<ref name="govzuloaga"/>

==Death== Zuloaga died on December 15, 1932, in Caracas, Venezuela.<ref name="govzuloaga"/>

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