The Amapá State Forest is divided between the municipalities of Tartarugalzinho (7.64%), Pracuúba (4.52%), Porto Grande (7.72%), Oiapoque (24.15%), Mazagão (8.56%), Ferreira Gomes (3.64%), Calçoene (23.23%), Pedra Branca do Amaparí (6.39%), Amapá (6.32%) and Serra do Navio (7.83%).

[3] The forest originated in a 2004 proposal by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to transfer federals lands to the state if they were transformed into a protected area.

[4] The Amapá State Forest was created under Amapá governor Waldez Góes by law 1.028 of 12 July 2006 for sustainable exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, to maintain biodiversity and other ecological attributes and a socially just and economically viable form.

[4] Ordnance 657 of 19 November 2013 set up an executive group to clarify the boundaries with 17 INCRA settlement projects.

In February 2014 a motion to repeal the forest was defeated after it was pointed out that if this were done the land would revert to federal ownership.