The base of the Serra do Aracá, a sandstone tepui after which the park is named, is 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the municipal seat on the south (right) shore of the Rio Negro.

From the base to the top of the serra is a 4–5 day journey on foot, or a short helicopter ride.

The most notable physical feature is the Serra do Aracá, a tabular plateau formed at the same time as Mount Roraima, which reaches an altitude of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft).

[1] The Serra do Aracá State Park was created by decree 12.836 of the Amazonas governor Amazonino Mendes on 9 March 1990.

[2] On 14 November 2012 an inter-institutional task force was created to consider revised the boundaries of the Serra do Aracá park and the composition of the mosaic of conservation units around it and to consider the disaffection of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory from the Amazonas National Forest.