Status As "world's Oldest Person"
On 9 December 2005, Guinness World Records recognized the claim of then 116-year-old María Capovilla of Ecuador to be the world's oldest person, supplanting Hendrikje from the revised title. Hendrikje was thought to be the oldest from 29 May 2004 to 30 August 2005.
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