With the purpose of erecting a commemorative monument of the campaign of the Army of the Andes, during the presidency of Juárez Celman, National Law No. 2270 was issued in 1888.

However, the project did not come to fruition and it was only when the Centenary celebrations were organized that the idea was taken up again and the province issued Law No. 6286 in 1909, which gave rise to the location of the monument.

The sculptural complex, 16 meters high and made of bronze, was cast in the Arsenal de Guerra de la Nación. It is the work of the Uruguayan sculptor Juan M. Ferrari (1874-1916) who, to carry out this work, carried out a meticulous study of the customs of the San Martin era. Previously, he had made two models, under the advice of the expert Francisco Moreno, a member of the national commission that promoted the monument.

It is located in the current 'Cerro de La Gloria', in the Gral. San Martín Park, originally known as 'Cerro del Pilar'; on a stone base brought from the Andes Mountains.

At its base, as a patriotic-symbolic message, a brick belonging to the May Pyramid was placed, which was sent by the National Historical Museum.

In the 1940s, the architect Daniel Ramos Correas remodeled the surroundings of the monument and built a wide access stairway to it, with an offering and plaque on the esplanade before the summit.

The Cerro de la Gloria Monument, its base and its surroundings were declared Cultural Patrimony of the Province of Mendoza by Decree No. 552/98.