It is surrounded by the municipalities of Sorocaba, Iperó, Araçoiaba da Serra, and Capela do Alto that are situated an average elevation of 600 m. It is noteworthy, therefore, focus on local and regional geology shows that it is an intrusion of igneous rocks of ultrabasic-alkaline nature of the Mesozoic era (123 million years), who crossed the sedimentary rocks of the Paraná Basin in an area with typical geomorphology of the Peripheral Depression, Zone of the Middle Tietê river.
[2] The area is part of the National Forest of Ipanema - "Flona", an environmental conservation unit established in 1992 and administered by the IBAMA.
The old railroad Sorocabana - EFS intersects the portion of the east and north of the hill and has a train station in hagen, whose current building was built in 1928.
At the higher altitude there are several towers and antennas for TV, radio, telephone, microwave, because it is a vantage point for telecommunications.
Near Morro de Ipanema are the premises of the Navy of Brazil, the Centro Experimental Aramar, which develops nuclear research.