Jacareí started due to its proximity to Mogi das Cruzes. It was founded in 1652 by Antônio Afonso and his children. A year later, it became a village and in 1849, a city. At the coffee plantation time, the city stared to have new paved streets and more leisure areas, with a little population growth.

At that time (end of the 19th century), new factories started to open, such as the socks factory, and also the cookies factory, known as “Biscoitos de Jacareí”, which pushed the city into development in the 20th century.

Nowadays, Jacareí is known as “The City of the Beer”, due to the production of its breweries, considered the biggest ones in all of Latin America.