It crosses the districts of Lima, Lince, La Victoria, San Isidro, Surquillo, Miraflores, Barranco and Chorrillos from north to south along 66 blocks.

Then, in 1868 when President José Balta ordered the demolition of the city walls, the railway line served as a pattern for the laying of a road.

Subsequently, as a result of the conurbation process that the city experienced during the first decades of the 20th century, the Paseo de la República was uniting successive districts.

Javier Prado, there was a mural by the Peruvian artist Fernando de Szyszlo, destroyed in 1999 during the construction of the Interbank Building.

[7] A third stage through which the Vía Expresa and the avenue itself extended to the San Juan de Miraflores district was planned, but the city's conurbation process truncated the realization of that project, in addition to the fact that this projected route had to cross the area of the Las Palmas Air Base of the Peruvian Air Force located in Santiago de Surco.