Santiago (; previously Aiñiní)
is a small town in
Los Cabos Municipality
Los Cabos () is a municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo (the municipal seat) linked by a thirty ...
in
Baja California Sur,
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, 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 city located in southern Baja California Sur state, Mexico. It is the seat of Los Cabos Municipality lying at a shallow bay northeast of Cabo San Lucas on the Gulf of California. The city ...
. Like
Todos Santos it is almost directly on top of the
Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer, which is also referred to as the Northern Tropic, is the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead. This occurs on the June solstice, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted tow ...
.
The
Misión Santiago de Los Coras
Mission Santiago was founded by the Italian Jesuit Ignacio María Nápoli in 1724 and financed by the Marqués de Villapuente de la Peña and his wife the Marquesa de las Torres de Rada, at the native settlement of Aiñiní, about 40 kilometers ...
in Aiñiní was founded in 1724 by the
Jesuit 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 Aiñiní, which was located southwest of Bahía las ...
,
and closed in 1795; the subsequent Church of Santiago Apostol was built nearby.
References
2010 census tables: INEGI
Populated places in Baja California Sur
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