It limits to the north, with the historic centre of Lima; to the east, with La Victoria; to the south, with Lince; and to the west, with Jesús María.

[2] Located in the Huatica valley, when the Spanish conquest took place, Francisco Pizarro awarded this estate to Diego de Agüero [es], who named it the Hacienda Santa Beatriz.

[3] Upon the death of his son, Diego de Agüero y Garay, the agricultural property was acquired by the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, in 1629.

In 2024, the Casa Boza, one of the neighbourhood's oldest houses that was built in 1925, was demolished to make way for a university building after its inclusion in the national heritage registry was controversially rejected by the Ministry of Culture.

[5][6] The Santa Beatriz urbanization concentrates three of the main arteries of the city of Lima: Arequipa, Petit Thouars, and Arenales avenues, and also houses various public buildings and cultural centres such as: It also houses diplomatic and military institutions such as the Embassy of Argentina (as well as its consulate), the Embassy of Venezuela, the former embassy of the Republic of China, the residence of the ambassador of the United States, the Headquarters of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru and the Military Police Court.