It is located in the San Isidro district in a building it shares with the delegation of the European Union to Peru.

[1] On February 18, 1933, due to the then ongoing Colombia–Peru War, the Colombian minister's residence was attacked by Peruvians, who rioted outside of the building and ultimately entered and looted it.

[2] In 1948, Ambassador Carlos Echeverri Cortés drew the wrath of President Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti and his administration when he gave political asylum to Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre in the embassy.

[3] The former chancery, located at 1580 Jorge Basadre Grohmann Avenue,[4] is currently occupied by the embassy of Hungary to Peru.

In 2014, it flew its flag at half-mast due to the death of Gabriel García Márquez.