Jaboticabal

Jaboticabal lies in the wooded interior of São Paulo, in the sertão of Araraquara. On 27 April 1820, João Pinto Ferreira acquired land from João Rodrigues Lima beside the Cachoeira stream. The tract measured one league across its frontage and three in depth. Ferreira established a farm first called Cachoeira and later Pintos.

In 1828, beside the Cerradinho and Jaboticabal streams, he began laying out a settlement around a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July. The chapel provided the nucleus for the later town. Water from the two streams, the fertile ground and the hill between them helped attract inhabitants. At this stage the locality remained a new rural settlement within the Araraquara hinterland. The farm, chapel and adjacent waterways formed the setting of its early growth.