[1] In 1813, Ramírez commanded an all-female, 100-strong artillery unit, which was instrumental in resisting Spanish soldiers' attempts to reconquer the then newly independent Venezuela and make it a colony again.
The monument, Juana La Avanzadora, was erected in her honor on Bolívar avenue in Maturín.
On October 23, 2001, the symbolic remains of Juana Ramírez were inducted into the National Pantheon of Venezuela, the last resting place of heroes of the War for Independence and important figures in Venezuelan society.
In 2015 she became the first black woman to be posthumously laid to rest in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.
In 2023,[3] arachnologists named a new species of Venezuelan tarantula, Xenesthis avanzadora Sherwood et al., 2023, after her.