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The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, between 1683 and 1834. The missionary goal was to spread the Christian doctrine among the Indigenous peoples living on the Baja California peninsula .
Mission Guadalupe del Norte (Spanish: Misión Guadalupe del Norte), also known as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Norte, is a Spanish mission located in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California. It was founded by the Dominican missionary Félix Caballero in June 1834 [1] in an area long inhabited by the Kumeyaay people.
Spanish missions in Baja California; Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert (including Sonora and southern Arizona) On California history: Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail; History of California through 1899; History of the west coast of North America; Mission Vieja; On general missionary history: Catholic Church and the Age of ...
Spanish missions in Baja California; C. ... Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Norte; ... Media in category "Missions in Baja California"
A map of central Mexicali, Baja California, showing postal code allocations. Postal codes in Mexico are issued by Correos de México, the national postal service. They are of five digits and modelled on the United States Postal Service's ZIP Code system. The first two digits identify a federal entity (or part thereof). [1]
Población y misiones de Baja California: estudio histórico demográfico de la misión de Santo Domingo de la Frontero, 1775–1850. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. Meigs, Peveril, III. 1935. The Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California. University of California Publications in Geography No. 7. Berkeley. Vernon, Edward ...
Location of Mission Santa Catarina among the Spanish missions in Baja California. The site chosen for the mission lay on a plateau at an elevation of 1,183 metres (3,881 ft) above sea level, surrounded by an irrigable valley in the Sierra de Juárez, some 62 kilometres (39 mi) east of Mission Santo Tomás.
Mission Santa Gertrudis (Spanish: Misión Santa Gertrudis), originally to be called Dolores del Norte, was a Spanish mission established by the Jesuit missionary Georg Retz in 1752 in what is today the Mexican state of Baja California. It is located about 80 km (50 mi) north of San Ignacio, Baja California Sur.