The work has a marble sculpture at the top, the work of the Italian sculptor Valmore Gemignani, with three characters that represent the fraternity of the human races, the white, the yellow and the black, for which it is also called the Fountain of the Three Races.

[1] On the sides are two allegories that represent the Amazon and Yellow rivers, made in bronze by the sculptor Ettore Graziosi.

[1] In 1921, during the second government of Augusto B. Leguía, the Centennial of the Independence of Peru was celebrated and many colonies of foreign residents decided to grant gifts in the form of monuments to the Peruvian State.

The gift chosen was a monumental fountain designed by the architect Gaetano Moretti [it].

[2] The first stone was laid in 1921 in the space previously occupied by the so-called "Kiosko de las Palmeras".