The wall was located on the present streets of Alfonso Ugarte, Paseo Colón and Grau and the left bank of Rímac River.

The Santa Lucía bastion is a sector of the wall located on the edge of Barrios Altos and El Agustino that still stands .

[2] As part of urban expansion programs and construction of new avenues, the wall was demolished in 1868 under José Balta's government.

The wall never served the purpose for which it was built, to the point that Raúl Porras Barrenechea mentioned that "it died a virgin of gunpowder."

Except for the portals of Maravillas (1807) in the Barrios Altos and El Callao, the other gates, as told by the painter Juan Manuel Ugarte, "had no great artistic appeal.