FLORES Y CAAMAÑO, Alfredo was born on April 15, 1888 in Guayaquil. Son of General Reynaldo Flores Jijón and Ana Caamaño Gómez Cornejo. Grandson of General Juan José Flores, lieutenant of Bolivar, and founder and first President of Ecuador.
Chancellor of the consulate general of Ecuador in Lima, 1903-1904. Cofounder (designated by the late Archbishop Federico González Suárez) of the National Academy of History of Quito, 1909. Member of the Patriotic Committee of Journalists (Junta Patriótica de Periodistas) created under the auspices of the Ecuadorian Chancellery.
First secretary of the special legation to Washington to re-establish peace with Perú, 1910.
Alternate deputy from the province of Pichincha, 1920. First secretary to the special embassy to Chile for the inauguration of President Alessandri, 1920.
Member of the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress of Lima, 1924-1925. Reorganized the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1930.
Has declined (on various occasions) the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias y Artes of Cádiz. National Academies of History of Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia. Instituto Histórico del Perú correspondiente de la Academia de Historia de Madrid.
Sociedad Geográfica of Lima.
Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía.
