# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-cristina-ardila-robayo
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:37:05.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-cristina-ardila-robayo"
name: "María Cristina Ardila-Robayo"
slug: "maria-cristina-ardila-robayo"
description: "María Cristina Ardila-Robayo was a Colombian herpetologist. She was professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, and worked closely with the Natural History Museum of the university. In 2010 she was credited as having described 28 new species of amphibians from Colombia; as of late 2018, the Amphibian Species of the World lists 31 valid species described by her. She also worked with caimans and crocodiles and lead biodiversity restoration projects."
tagline: "Colombian herpetologist (1947–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mar%C3%ADa_Cristina_Ardila_Robayo.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1947-02-15"
deathDate: "2017-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.601512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "María Cristina Ardila-Robayo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "María Cristina Ardila-Robayo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Cristina_Ardila-Robayo"
    title: "María Cristina Ardila-Robayo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Cristina_Ardila-Robayo"
    title: "María Cristina Ardila-Robayo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماریا کرسٹینا ارڈیلا روبایو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3296426"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump