[1] There she was instructed under the tutelage of José Joaquín de Olmedo and Vicente Rocafuerte, from whom she learned the French language.

[1] During her husband's presidency, a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Ecuador, and she fell ill, but quickly recovered.

They left Guayaquil again in 1846, landing in Callao in December of the same year, where Rocafuerte fell ill, and wrote his will, naming her heir to all his assets.

In the same year, she was the godmother of honor of the first meeting of the Guayas Philanthropic Society, and of the inauguration of the Vélez asylum, run by the Guayaquil Charity Board.

She dedicated herself to investing her fortune into charities, educational establishments, curatorial boards of schools, hospitals, and fire departments.