Simón Sarasola (1871[1]–Dec/12/1947[2]) was a Spanish meteorologist and Jesuit priest. He was president of the Belen Jesuit Preparatory School at Havana, and director of the National Meteorological Observatory. After the opening of Panama Canal (1914[3]), he founded the Montserrat Observatory in Cienfuegos, southern Cuba.[4][5] He moved to Bogotá (Colombia) in 1921, where participated in the creation of the weather observatory of Colegio Nacional de San Bartolomé in Bogotá[4] and the reorganization of a national meteorological service.[6] In 1923 established the first seismograph in Colombia.[7][8] He co-founded the Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes with J. E. Ramírez in 1941.[9]: 139
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- Escobar, Wladimiro (1971). "El padre Simon Sarasola eminente cientifico jesuita". Publicacion del Instituto Geofisico de los Andes Colombianos: Meteorologia. 8. OCLC 797727809.