From Madrid, he traveled to Paris, where he was received as a member of the French Academy of Sciences on March 24, 1747 based on reports about his merits from other geologists who knew him in Quito, giving him the opportunity to print his “General Map.”
San Pedro Sula | São Vicente | San Pedro | Pedro Almodóvar | Vicente Fox | São Vicente, Cape Verde | San Pedro de Macorís | Pedro Infante | Maldonado | Pedro II of Brazil | Pedro Martínez | San Vicente | Pedro Vargas | Maldonado, Uruguay | Vicente Fernández | San Pedro, Los Angeles | Pedro Rosselló | Maldonado Department | São Vicente, São Paulo | San Pedro Town | Francisco Maldonado | Colégio Pedro II | Pedro Rodríguez | Pedro Fernández de Castro | Pedro Damián | Pedro Álvares Cabral | Juan Vicente Gómez | Gil Vicente | Vicente Rojo | Vicente Huidobro |
The base is named after the Spanish-American astronomer, topographer, and geographer Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704–1748) born in Riobamba, present Ecuador.
Maldonado Base, also Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base, is the Ecuadorian Antarctic research base situated at Guayaquil Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica opened in 1990.