Awards and Honors
- Medal of Public Instruction of Venezuela (1927)
- consecrated "Juana de América" in the Salon of the Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace of Montevideo (1929)
- Gold Medal of Francisco Pizarro (Peru, 1935)
- Order of the Condor of the Andes (Bolivia, 1937)
- Order of the Sun (Peru, 1938)
- President of the PEN Club of Uruguay (1941)
- Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil, 1945) (Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul)
- Cross of the Commander of the Grand Humanitarian Prize of Belgium (1946)
- National Academy of Letters (Uruguay, 1947)
- Gold Medal from the Ministry of Public Instruction (Uruguay, 1948)
- Carlos Manuel Céspedes Order (Cuba, 1951)
- Named "Woman of the Americas" by the American Women's Union of New York (1953)
- Eloy Alfaro Order (Ecuador, 1953)
- National Grand Prize for Literature (Uruguay, 1959)
- Order of the Quetzal (Guatemala, 1960)
- Plaza in La Paz, Bolivia named for Juana de Ibarbourou (1965)
- Branch of the Juana de Ibarbourou Library and House of Culture opened in home town of Melo (1977)
- La Fiesta de los Milagros(1943)
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