Bom Jardim da Serra, municipality of the State of Santa Catarina, Southern Region of Brazil, is known as "Capital das Águas" because there are 35 waterfalls in the municipality with at least ten meters high and no less than 14 rivers are born in the territory and become tributaries of the Pelotas River within the municipality itself. The emergence of the city dates back to 1870, with the arrival of the family of the gaucho Manoel Pinto Ribeiro and it was up to these first settlers to open a trail towards the coast, which was initially known as Serra do Doze - only later it became known as Rastro River's Mountain Range. Due to the influence of the colonizers, ancestors of most of the more than 4,500 residents, Bom Jardim da Serra is one of the municipalities in Santa Catarina where the gaucho traditions are most strongly preserved to this day.