Santiago (; previously AiñinÃ)
is a small town in
Los Cabos Municipality
Los Cabos () is a municipalities of Mexico, municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state, state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cab ...
in
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is a state in Mexico. It is the 31st and last state to be admitted, in 1974. It is also the second least populated Mexican state and the ninth-largest state by ...
,
Mexico
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, located on Mexico's
Highway 1, about an hour's drive north of
San José del Cabo
San José del Cabo (, ''Saint Joseph of the Cape'') is a coastal city located on the Gulf of California coast, near the southern tip of Baja California Sur (state), México. San José del Cabo is situated on the edge of a shallow bay, some northea ...
. Like
Todos Santos it is almost directly on top of the
Tropic of Cancer
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.
The
Misión Santiago de Los Coras
Mission Santiago was founded by the Italian Jesuit Ignacio MarÃa Nápoli in 1724 and financed by the :es:José de la Puente, Marqués de Villapuente de la Peña and his wife the Marquesa de las Torres de Rada, at the native settlement of Aiñinà ...
in Aiñinà was founded in 1724 by the
Jesuit
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missionary,
Ignacio Maria Napoli Ignacio Maria Napoli (died ca. 1744; also known as "Padre Procurador") was an Italian Jesuit missionary to the Baja California peninsula. In 1723, he founded the Misión de Santiago de los Coras AiñinÃ, which was located southwest of BahÃa las ...
,
and closed in 1795; the subsequent Church of Santiago Apostol was built nearby.
Climate
References
2010 census tables: INEGI
Populated places in Baja California Sur
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