Begonias Tower
building in Lima, Peru
Begonias Tower, also known as the HSBC Tower, is a skyscraper located in San Isidro District, Lima. It serves as the main headquarters of HSBC Perú, a subsidiary of British banking company HSBC.
Description
It is owned by the Brescia Group, as is the Banco Continental Building. It houses a group of offices including those of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura, McKinsey & Company, Huawei, among others. Its construction finished in 2013. It has a height of 120 metres, 26 floors with 8 basements.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Begonias Tower” as building in Lima, Peru. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Lima, Peru. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21619260. Authority coordinates are -12.092, -77.026. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Begonias Tower”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Begonias Tower primary sources, Begonias Tower archive and Begonias research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
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- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Begonias Tower” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.