The Latin American Academy of Sciences was created to honor the memory of Simón Bolívar by a group of scientific researchers from Latin America gathered for this purpose at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1982. As agreed at that meeting, it established its permanent headquarters in Caracas in 1983, the bicentennial year of the birth of Simón Bolívar.
Currently the Academy has more than 250 members from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. The Academics are researchers recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions to scientific knowledge.
The Academics are researchers recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions to scientific knowledge.