Two mountain ranges tower above Los Gatos: El Sombroso (the shadowing one) and El Sereno (the night watchman). The town was founded in the late 1860s on a portion of an 1840 Spanish land grant. The original grant was known as La Rinconada de los Gatos (corner of the cats), a name derived from the many mountain lions and wildcats that then inhabited the nearby hills. Learn More...