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Mission San Buenaventura (Spanish: Misión San Buenaventura, Ventureño: mitsqanaqan̓ [9]), formally known as the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, is a Catholic parish and basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The parish church in the city of Ventura, California, United States, is a Spanish mission founded by the Order of Friars Minor.
Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura (Spanish for "Saint Bonaventure"), [11] is a city in and the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States. It is a coastal city located northwest of Los Angeles .
Mission San Buenaventura followed in 1782, Santa Barbara in 1786 and La Purisima in 1787, and finally Santa Ynez in 1804. [4] Like many other Native American peoples who lived near the missions, some converted to Christianity , some merely used the missions as a survival tool to weather the drastic ecological and demographic changes that the ...
Ventura, California, the official name of which is San Buenaventura Mission San Buenaventura, in Ventura; San Buenaventura de Potano, a 17th-century Spanish mission in Florida; San Buenaventura de Guadalquini, a 17th-century Spanish mission in Georgia; San Buenaventura River (legend), a legendary river in the western United States
The San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct was a seven-mile long, stone and mortar aqueduct built in the late 18th and/or early 19th century to transport water from the Ventura River to the Mission San Buenaventura in Ventura, California. Accounts vary greatly as to when the aqueduct was built. [4]
San Buenaventura State Beach is a beach located in Ventura, California. The primary entrance is at 901 Pedro Street, off the 101 Freeway . This beach is adjacent to the 1,700-foot (520 m) Ventura Pier that has a snack bar and restaurant.
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[13] [2]: 53 In 1997, the Historic Preservation Alliance of San Buenaventura put the "Original Junipero Serra statue, boxed up in an industrial yard at 2951 N. Ventura Ave." on a list of the top ten most endangered historical sites. [14] As of April 2018, the concrete statue remained at the OST yard in a decaying wooden crate. [12] [15]