It was originally a folkloric expression from the Sinú River area that evolved into a ballroom dance.
Girolamo Porro, ''Antique map of Iceland'', from the National and University Library of Iceland | porro | Ignazio Porro |
Eduardo Porro (1842–1902) was an Italian obstetrician.
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Porro improved the so-called Cæsarean operation by excision of the uterus and adnexae, described in Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo (1876), the best known of his writings.
On the coastal plain, for example the town of San Jacinto, Bolívar, an ensemble known as the conjunto de gaitas commonly provides the music for the cumbia, porro, and other folk styles such as vallenato.
Garatti soon began work with Porro and Gottardi on the ambitious project of Havana's new National Art Schools, commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, in the context of the educational policy promoted immediately after the revolution.