She studied at the Normal School in the Veraguas Province, and later went to the Lyceum for Young Ladies and finally got her degree at the National Institute in Panama City.

[2] De Araúz's doctoral thesis published in 1962, was on Panama and Colombia's culture and their inhabitants, and is considered an important reference on the subject.

[4] De Araúz focused on the study of the characteristics of indigenous Panamanians in their own environment, through field visits in jungles and mountains of Panama in a theoretical and documentary research work that allowed her to create a written and photographic record that detailed the idiosyncrasy, religious beliefs, sports games, dances, songs and music of these peoples.

The locomotive had previously been included in the national heritage and its donation to the museum in New Jersey had been negotiated only a year earlier, when the treaties were in force.

She described the actions of Parfitt as "a flagrant violation of all international instruments on the heritage of humanity, and is painfully, at this moment we are close to the implementation of the Treaty, an effective denial statements joint ratification of the total Panamanian sovereignty.

Soon after their marriage, they departed via the first crossing by car from Panama to Bogotá called "Trans-Darien Expedition" in which they spent four months and twenty days in the Darien and Choco jungles.