This work proposes to discuss and analyze narratives that build part of the history of Rio de Janeiro and, in particular, the constitution of the community that divides between the memories of the São Carlos Hill and the tradition created around the Estácio neighborhood. Historically without significant frontiers, Estácio and São Carlos Hill seem to constitute a single body, in spite of its own relief as a possible frontier indicator. The tradition of cradle of the samba, the creation of the Deixa Falar, the samba schools from top of the hill and the samba as synthesis of everything produce a collective memory, which is not made absolute because a part of the community claims the recognition of a supposed underground memory. From the observation of a transitional character inherent to the place, of the relations involving people, politics, geography, art and culture, and having orality as the guiding thread of this narrative, what proposes this thesis is only to contribute with the literary collection referring to the São Carlos Hill, Estácio, the community of these one place and samba, as a final product that keep them attracted to each other.