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Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (22 August 1773 - 4 May 1858) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 explorer
List of explorers

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 and botanist
Botany

Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the Scientific method of plant life and development....
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Bonpland's real name was Goujaud, and he was born in La Rochelle
La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France....
, a coastal city in France. After serving as a surgeon
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
 in the French army, and studying under J. N. Corvisart at Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, he accompanied Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt

was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
 during five years of travel in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 and the districts bordering on the Orinoco
Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, . Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia covers 880,000 km?, 76.3% in Venezuela with the rest in Colombia....
 and Amazon
Amazon River

The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....
 rivers. In these explorations he collected and classified about 60 000 plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s that were, until then, mostly unknown in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
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Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (22 August 1773 - 4 May 1858) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 explorer
List of explorers

This list of explorers is sorted by surname. See also the links #See also.A B C D E F G ...
 and botanist
Botany

Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the Scientific method of plant life and development....
.

Bonpland's real name was Goujaud, and he was born in La Rochelle
La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France....
, a coastal city in France. After serving as a surgeon
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
 in the French army, and studying under J. N. Corvisart at Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, he accompanied Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt

was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
 during five years of travel in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 and the districts bordering on the Orinoco
Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, . Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia covers 880,000 km?, 76.3% in Venezuela with the rest in Colombia....
 and Amazon
Amazon River

The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....
 rivers. In these explorations he collected and classified about 60 000 plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s that were, until then, mostly unknown in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. He later described his finds in Plantes equinoxiales (Paris, 1808-1816). A semi-fictional account of these travels is to be found in Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann is an Austrian author. His work Die Vermessung der Welt is the biggest selling novel in the German language since Patrick S?skind's Perfume was released in 1985....
's Die Vermessung der Welt (also published in American English as Measuring the World
Measuring the World

Measuring the World was written in German by Daniel Kehlmann as Die Vermessung der Welt. This novel deals with Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt - who was accompanied on his journeys by Aim? Bonpland - and their two different ways of taking the world's measure, as well as their travels in South America and their meeting...
: A Novel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway).

On returning to Paris he received a pension and the superintendence of the gardens at Malmaison
Château de Malmaison

The Ch?teau de Malmaison is a country house in the city of Rueil-Malmaison about 12 km from Paris.It was formally the residence of Jos?phine de Beauharnais, and with the Tuileries, was from 1800 to 1802 the headquarters of the French government....
, and published Monographie des Melastomes (1806), and Description des plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre (1813). In 1816 he set out, taking with him various European plants, for Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
, where he was elected professor of natural history, an office which he soon left in order to explore central South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
. While journeying to Bolivia
Bolivia

The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
 he was arrested in 1821, by command of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

Dr. Jos? Gaspar Rodr?guez de Francia y Velasco was the first leader of Paraguay following its independence from Spain. He ran the country with no outside interference and little outside influence from 1814 to 1840....
, the dictator of Paraguay
Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
, who detained him until 1831.

On regaining liberty he resided at San Borga in the province of Corrientes
Corrientes

Corrientes is the capital city of the Provinces of Argentina of Corrientes Province, Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Paran? River, about 1,000 km from Buenos Aires and 300 km from Posadas, Misiones, on National Route 12 ....
, Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 until his removal in 1853 to Santa Ana, in Misiones, today a small town called "Bonpland" in his honor, close to Restauracion where he died.

Bonpland Street in the ritzy Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
 neighborhood of Palermo Hollywood lies among streets named after Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
, Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorology who made accurate weather forecasting a reality....
 and Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt

was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
. Many animals and plants are also named in his honor, including the squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi
Grimalditeuthis bonplandi

Grimalditeuthis bonplandi is a squid named after the Grimaldi family, reigning house of Monaco. His Serene Highness Prince Albert I of Monaco was an amateur teuthologist who pioneered the study of deep sea squids by collecting the 'precious regurgitations' of Sperm Whales....
 and the orchid Ornithocephalus bonplandi.

The lunar crater Bonpland
Bonpland (crater)

Bonpland is the remains of a moon Impact crater that is attached to the walled plain Fra Mauro to the north and Parry to the east. The intersection of their rims forms a three-pointed mountainous rise....
 is named after him. Also Pico Bonpland
Pico Bonpland

Pico Bonpland is Venezuela's third highest peak, at 4,883 metres above sea level. It is located in the Sierra Nevada de Merida, in the Venezuelan Andes of ....
 in the Venezuelan Andes
Sierra Nevada de Mérida

The Sierra Nevada de M?rida is the highest mountain range in the largest massif in Venezuela, the Cordillera de M?rida, which in turn is part of the northern extent of the Andes....
 is named to his honor, although he never visited the Venezuelan Andes
Sierra Nevada de Mérida

The Sierra Nevada de M?rida is the highest mountain range in the largest massif in Venezuela, the Cordillera de M?rida, which in turn is part of the northern extent of the Andes....
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