On the book, he inspired a large number of pages from Baltasar Lopes da Silva's novel "Chiquinho" into one of its chapters. The book was awarded the Lopes de Rego Award in 1957. A small cone made out of the 1951 eruption south of Pico do Fogo (now a volcanic hill) named Monte Orlando was named for him  In 1958, he later saw the eruption in Capelinhos in the west of Faial Island, Azores. In 1966, the Centro de Estudos Geográficos began to publish the geography journal "Finisterra", which soon would become the main reference of geographical science in Portugal, to the present day. Ribeiro was also an accomplished photographer, and he would often take the pictures himself for his works. He died in Lisbon in 1997.