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Mission San Fernando Velicatá (Spanish: Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá) was a Spanish mission located about 56 km (35 mi) southeast of El Rosario in Baja California, Mexico. The mission was founded in 1769 by Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra and was the only mission founded by Franciscan missionaries in what is now Baja ...
Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California.The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.
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Misión Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario de Viñadaco; Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá; Misión San Francisco Borja; Misión San Miguel Arcángel de la Frontera; Misión San Pedro Mártir de Verona; Misión San Vicente Ferrer; Misión Santa Catarina Virgen y Mártir; Misión Santa Gertrudis; Misión Santa María de los ...
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7 – North across the San Fernando Valley to camp near where Mission San Fernando Rey de España would be established in 1797. 8 – Northwest out of San Fernando Valley, up the steep pass now used by Interstate Highway 5, to a camp on the Santa Clara River (so named by Crespí) near today's Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park.
San Vicente was the center of operation on the Dominican missionary frontier and for that reason was protected by 12 to 25 soldiers from the Loreto presidio in what is now Baja California Sur who lived in a walled compound. The military installation was also to protect the territory between the missions of San Fernando de Velicatá and San Diego.
In 1692, San Agustín del Tucson was established by Kino as a visita to Mission San Xavier del Bac, but became a mission in 1768 as Mission San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón. [ 12 ] In 1749 and 1750, along the Lower Rio Grande Valley, there was a large colonization effort, mainly led by José de Escandón .