Background
LARREA R., Carlos was born on February 9, 1887 in Quito. Son of Doctor Manuel Larrea y Lizarzaburu and Filomena Ribandeira y Gonzalez.
Ecuadorian diplomat and historian
LARREA R., Carlos was born on February 9, 1887 in Quito. Son of Doctor Manuel Larrea y Lizarzaburu and Filomena Ribandeira y Gonzalez.
First official of the secretariat of the Ecuadorian Senate, 1910. Member of the Congress of Americanists of London as delegate of the Sociedad de Estudios Históricos of Ecuador, 1912. Delegate to the Historical and Geographic Congress of Seville, 1914.
Alternate deputy from the Province of Pichincha, 1920-1922.
Professor of universal history and geography in the “Manuela Cañizares” Normal Institute of Quito, 1921. First secretary of the Ecuadorian legation to Chile, 1923.
To the United States, 1923. Ecuadorian chargé d’affaires ad interim in Washington, July-September, 1923.
Under-secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the drafting of the budget, 1926.
Alternate member of the Central Junta of Public Welfare (Asistencia Pública), 1926. Minister Plenipotentiary to Argentina, 1926. Ecuadorian delegate to the Third Pan-American Congress of Architects of Buenos Aires, 1927.
Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile, 1927.
Member of the Consultative Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1929. Legal adviser of the Chancellery and director of the Bureau of Boundaries, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1931.
Minister of Public Education, 1931. Legal adviser of the Chancellery and member of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1932.
Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia since 1933.
Sociedad Literaria “Olmedo” (founder and president). Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Históricos, Quito (charter member). Société des Américanistes, Paris.
Sociedad Geográfica, Lima (corresponding).
Academia Nacional de Historia (at various times assistant director and secretary). Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid (corresponding).
Sociedad Jurídico Literaria, Quito (vice-president, 1921). Círculo Ecuador.
Married Lola Holguin Iturralde. Children: Carlos Manuel and Juan.