The name Cinco Saltos (literally "Five Waterfalls") refers to the five-level steps of the canal that starts upstream at the Ingeniero Ballester Dam and passes by the eastern limit of the city.

This factory improved the income of ordinary workers and professional and it made it possible to build of the chemistry oriented Industrial School No.

[4] The town's original name was La Picasa, a horse hair Picaza baguala who roamed the area.

Years later, at the opening of the railway station, it was named Cinco Saltos, referred to the falls of the canal that run near the same.

This was organized to benefit the local volunteer firefighters and it was baked by the prestigious baker Osvaldo Gross in honor to the province’s most important fruit, the apple.