Guerrero is a city and seat of the municipality of Guerrero, in the north-eastern

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Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

. The 2010 census population was reported as 959 inhabitants.

San Juan Bautista missions

In the early 1700s, a series of

Christian mission A Christian mission is an organized effort for the propagation of the Christian faith. Missions involve sending individuals and groups across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries, to carry on evangelism or other activities, such ...

s collectively known as the San Juan Bautista missions were founded in and around Guerrero, primarily as a means of converting

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, including the

Ervipiame The Ervipiame or Hierbipiame were a Native people of modern Coahuila and Texas. Beginning in the 16th century Spanish settlement in what is today Northern Mexico and the accompanying diseases and slave raiding to supply ranches and mines with Nativ ...

, to Christianity. The first was Mission San Juan Bautista. Originally founded in 1699 at a site 25 miles north of Lampazos in

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

on the

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, it was relocated to Guerrero on January 1, 1700. The second was

Mission San Francisco Solano Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st, last, and northernmost mission in Alta California. It was named for Saint Francis Solanus. It was the only mission built in Alta California after Mexico gained independence from Spain. The difficulty of ...

, founded 1700, and the third, Mission San Bernardo, was founded in spring 1702. The ruins of these missions remain as sites of archaeological interest. The mission complex was designated a ''

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'' site in 2015. In 1703 a

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, or fort, was established at San Juan Bautista.

References

Populated places in Coahuila Populated places established in 1699 1699 establishments in New Spain Pueblos Mágicos {{Coahuila-geo-stub es:Municipio de Guerrero (Coahuila)