Considered the "lung" of the district (and the city), it is located near the headquarters of a number of government institutions, including the National Office of Electoral Processes, the ministries of Health, Labour and Defence, as well as of the Peruvian Air Force.

[2] Preceded by the first airport in the city from 1924,[3] and the Santa Beatriz racetrack, where president Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was assassinated in 1933,[4][5] it was inaugurated in 1938.

A lagoon popular among locals that existed in the area's corner with a monument to Jorge Chávez was drained three years later to make way for the park.

The work of the sculptor Artemio Ocaña [es], inaugurated on June 24, 1966, the quarry granite pedestal is 25 m high from its base and 28 human figures.

It was executed by more than five hundred people from various Departmental Clubs, as well as many supporters, being advised by the Municipality of Lima, cooperating with private companies that donated enough material for the work.

Various Peruvian artists collaborated with the mural, highlighting the most characteristic of each department and with a single purpose, to leave imprint the apostolic visit of John Paul II to Peru carried out from February 1 to 5, 1985.

Bronze and pink granite were used for its elaboration, it is the work of the sculptor Eugenio Baroni, it was a gift from the Italian Colony, and it was inaugurated on September 23, 1937, marking the twenty-seventh anniversary of his death.