List of Colombian supercentenarians

Lucio Chiquito Caicedo, a Colombian civil engineer and one of the founders of the Medellin public utility Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM), died on 13 November 2026 in Medellin at the age of 110. He had become Colombia's oldest known living man earlier in 2026, after the death of another Colombian born supercentenarian, and his passing was reported the same day by El Colombiano and later by Colombian and international outlets including LongeviQuest.

He was born on 22 May 1916 in Cali, to a father from Antioquia and a mother from Valle del Cauca. He studied civil engineering at the Faculty of Mines of the National University of Colombia in Medellin, graduating in 1941, and later won a British Council scholarship that took him to the University of Manchester, where he earned a master's degree in hydraulics in 1947, arriving in England in the middle of the Second World War.

Back in Colombia, he became chief engineer on hydrological studies that identified Antioquia's water sources and their potential for energy projects, including the Piedras Blancas reservoir built to secure Medellin's water supply. In 1955 he helped found EPM, the public utility that still supplies power, water and gas to Medellin, and in the same era he was involved in setting up the engineering firm Integral as well as institutions such as Sedic, Camacol and the Antioquia School of Engineering. He stayed on at EPM until 1957.

Chiquito Caicedo became known well beyond engineering circles in 2020, when, at the age of 104, he completed and submitted a doctoral thesis to the University of Manchester, more than seventy years after earning his master's there. The thesis addressed how to calculate the optimal flow that can be drawn economically from a river for energy, irrigation or storage, a problem he had returned to periodically over roughly three decades of research before dedicating his final four years to finishing it. In 2023 he received the Escudo de Oro de Antioquia in recognition of his scientific contribution and his role in the region's development.

News of his death prompted tributes from the institution he helped build. EPM's general manager, Jhon Maya, described him as a reference point for engineering across Antioquia and Colombia and credited him with shaping the utility's creation. Colombian media recalled him as a man who kept studying, writing and solving problems into his final years, and who remained publicly engaged even in old age, including posting on social media after voting in the March 2026 legislative elections. His death closed a life that connected Medellin's early twentieth century infrastructure building with a highly unusual late life return to academic research.