 Upon confirmation of the death of Rafael Antonio Curra, the Board of Trustees of Universidad de Oriente agreed to declare three days of mourning, and order to raise the university flag at half-mast in all its university campuses.As a posthumous tribute, the library of the Oceanographic Institute of Venezuela, located on the main campus of Universidad de Oriente in Cumana, bears his name.The prominent Hindu philologist E. Kandaswamy Ganesan described and dedicated a kind of native benthic seaweed from the Venezuelan coast as Amphiroa currae Ganesan (1971) in posthumous tribute.