The street starts at the Ricardo Palma Bridge and continues until it reaches Grau Avenue.

Formerly a street (jirón), it was widened in 1947 under the government of Manuel A. Odría and buildings were built to house the ministries of economy and education.

[1] This makes it one of the roads with the greatest environmental and noise pollution in the city.

[2] The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535.

In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Arequipa.