He was born in Spain and arrived in Cuba in 1870 to take on the direction of the  Meteorological observatory at the Real Colegio de Belén. He was the founder of the bases of the Cuban meteorological tradition. His work as a meteorologist   has extended as his theories and ideas were taken into account by a number of meteorologists in the world during the first half of the twentieth century. He was elected as Member of Merit of the Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana.

Real Colegio de Belén

It was an important religious school in Havana, under the Jesuits Order. It was opened by the Jesuit fathers in 1852 in Habana Vieja and was moved to the area of Marianao on December 17th, 1925. There, it had a building with better conditions and surrounding areas. Its structure corresponded with the kind of religious school as it was. It had nine pavilions, that resembled a cross from the air and in the higher side it had the impression of having a crown of thorns.