[1] He traveled to Bogotá at the age of fifteen to study painting,[2] but was forced to return to Panama in 1899 due to the Thousand Days' War.

In 1917, he returned to Panama to serve as director of the National Archives until 1927 and as a secretary for the Academia Panameña de la Lengua until 1940.

Ricardo Miró Denis was born on 5 November 1883 in Panama City, then a part of the United States of Colombia.

[3] In celebration of 100 years since his birth, Miró's completed works were published in two volumes by the National Institute of Culture of Panama.

[4] It was revealed on Season 11 of Finding Your Roots that musician and actor Rubén Blades is the newly discovered grandson of Miró.