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The valley was the site of the last Dominican mission in Baja California, established in 1834 after the Mexican War of Independence. Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Norte was founded by the Dominican missionary Father Félix Caballero to serve as the administrative center of the region.
Tallest waterfalls in California [1] Rank Name Height Location 1 Yosemite Falls: 2,425 ft (739 m) Yosemite National Park: 2 East Snow Mountain Falls: 2,200 ft (670 m) Eldorado National Forest: 3 Sentinel Fall: 1,920 ft (590 m) Yosemite National Park: 4 Widow's Tears: 1,680 ft (510 m) Yosemite National Park: 5 Ribbon Fall: 1,612 ft (491 m)
Location of Mission El Descanso among the Spanish missions in Baja California. Due to the frequent flooding of Mission San Miguel by the Río Guadalupe, missionary Tomás de Ahumada sought another site located on higher ground. The preferred site was located 13 km (8.1 mi) to the north at the head of a ridge overlooking a reliable creek and the ...
Jacumba Valley is a valley in San Diego and Imperial Counties, California.Its head is at 1] Carrizo Creek has its source in Jacumba Valley, 1.2 miles north of the California-Mexico State boundary, at at an elevation of 3,210 feet, on the west side of the divide between Jacumba Valley and the valley of upper Boulder
Location of Mission Guadalupe del Norte among the Spanish missions in Baja California. The mission's inland site, about 25 kilometers east of Misión San Miguel was presumably chosen for the agricultural potential of its wide valley. Wheat, olives, pears, and grapes were among the crops that were produced.
The location was previously known to the native Paipai as Ha'ketepohol, meaning "water that falls loudly". Following the precedent of Mission San Pedro Mártir, it was the second and last of the Baja California missions to be situated in such mountainous terrain. Today, Santa Catarina is a village of the Paipai and Kumeyaay people.
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Hierve el Aqua (Spanish for "the water boils") is a set of natural travertine rock formations in San Lorenzo Albarradas, Oaxaca, Mexico that resemble cascades of water. [1] [2] The site is located about 70 km east of Oaxaca City, [3] and consists of two rock shelves or cliffs which rise between fifty and ninety metres from the valley below, from which extend nearly white rock formations which ...