The Guarita State Park is in the municipality of Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, on top of the Torres promontory, the only place in the state where the mountains come down to the sea.

[1] The town of Torres is named after the "towers", or cliffs of volcanic origin, along the sea shore.

[2] The rock formations are between 200 and 180 million years old, formed before South America split from Africa, and corresponding to Entedeka in Namibia.

[3] The Guarita State Park was created in 1971 to protect a geological formation of great scenic and environmental value.

[4] The change in name to Parque Estadual José Lutzenberger was approved in January 2003, in recognition of the effort made by the environmentalist José Lutzenberger to have the park created, and to define and design the park.