Dimas Camilo Cortés (born October 22, 1989, in Uranden,

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, together with Mexico City, compose the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The stat ...

) is a Mexican

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who competed in the late 2000s. At the

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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-2 500 m and the C-2 1000 m events. He is of Purepecha Indigenous descent.

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1989 births Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Living people Mexican male canoeists Sportspeople from Michoacán Olympic canoeists for Mexico Mexican people of Purépecha descent 21st-century Mexican sportsmen {{Mexico-canoe-bio-stub