Nephew of Agustín de Betancourt.

After several years of study in England, he became a Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers of Ways of Communication in 1821. He was twenty-four years old, and initially he was charged with the construction of the main road that linked St. Petersburg and Moscow. Later, after participating in the works of several bridges and canalizations, Monteverde was sent to Odessa on the Black Sea, where he was employed in the installation of the water supply to the city.

From 1826 he worked on the composition of the plans of the dams of Sebastopol, and later in the city of Nikolayev, where he drafted the project and subsequently the construction of the prison. He took part in the study commission of projects and budgets for potential civil constructions, to be later transferred to the Ministry of the Navy.

In 1832 he entered the Maritime and Port Authority Corps of Engineers and from 1845 he directed the works of the military engineers in St. Petersburg. In Russia, in huge part due to his technical preparation, he made a brilliant career in the military during the reign of Nicholas I and Alexander II, reaching the rank of General in the Imperial Army.

He died in St. Petersburg in 1875, where today many of his descendants live.