[1] The Roraima National Forest was created by decree nº 97545 of 1 March 1989 and covered 2,664,685 hectares (6,584,580 acres) of the Amazon biome.

[1] In 2001 IBAMA realized that 5% of the forest, or 142,000 hectares (350,000 acres), had been left out of the indigenous territory, and decided to repossess the unit.

To regularize the situation, the boundaries were revised by law 12058 of 13 October 2009, and the forest now has an area of 167,268.74 hectares (413,330.1 acres).

The Apiaú is a right tributary of the Mucajaí and delimits the southern boundary of the national forest where it meets the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

A small part of the north of the national forest is in the Uraricoera basin, an area of extensive cattle ranching with some subsistence and semi-commercial farming.

[5] The Roraima National Forest is administered by the Federal Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).