Faxinal dos Guedes is a municipality located in the west of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South Region of Brazil.

With a high index of human development, the city is a highlight in the national scenario because it is the only one in the entire southern region of Brazil to have basic sanitation services serving 100% of the urban area besides having almost all of its asphalted streets.

In 1940, the first families of settlers began to arrive, coming from Rio Grande do Sul, mainly descendants of Italians and Germans, including Vergílio Barcelos, Arcangelo Santin, Alexandre Antoniolli, Francisco Antoniolli, Fachinello, Migliorini, Rosa e Silva, Vicente de Oliveira Morais, João Pompermayer and Afonso Scheis, these began to focus mainly on the exploration of native wood, the cultivation of corn and wheat, also appearing the first commercial houses and a more intense social life, with the foundation of the Itagiba Recreational Club in the years 1943.

Ltda, Fioravante Massolini and colonizer Cruzeiro began selling lots from Ressaca farms, Cerca Velha and others.

Still in the same year, elevated to the category of 7yh District of Chapecó, he built the 1st School, which also served as a Catholic church, with techers: Juvenal Cunha, Doraci Cavalheiro and Reinaldo Macari, and as Priest Father Gaspar, coming from Palmas.Around 1943, the first streets and avenues were opened by firm Migliorini, Grando & CIa Ltda, a commercial house was installed by Mr. Vergilio Barcelos, the 1st Sawmill was installed and the Itagiba Recreational Club was created.

The first authorities were, as sub-Mayor, Mr. Antônio Firmino Pereira and, as clerk of Peace, Mr. Francisco Brito de Miranda.

Public transport is provided by a local bus company with a line in daily operation between the central regional and the district of Barra Grande.

It is also possible to arrive using Xanxerê Airport for small aircraft, about 8,6 miles away and with an air taxi company operating regularly, or Chapecó Airport, about 42,2 miles away, which has regular flights to the entire region country by the companies Gol Linhas Aéreas, Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras and Latam.