[1][2] The park spans a 164.45-hectare (406.4-acre) area in the Fontes do Ipiranga State Park, at the district of Água Funda, in São Paulo's South zone, next to São Paulo Zoo.

It houses the state's Botanical Institute (Instituto de Botânica [pt]).

[1] Since 1893, the São Paulo state government began expropriations in order to preserve the sources of the Ipiranga River and the surrounding Atlantic Forest area.

The year 1917 marks the founding of the State Park (Parque do Estado); sources were used until 1928 to supply water to the district of Ipiranga.

It counts among its facilities: the Botanical Museum Dr. João Barbosa Rodrigues, the Jardim de Lineu (Garden of Linnaeus) and the mirror of water, greenhouses and the Dr. Frederico Carlos Hoehne orchidarium, Lago das Ninfeias (Lake of the Waterlilies),trails and sculptures.