The Visita de San Telmo was a Catholic visita located along the Arroyo de San Telmo in

Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

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. The visita was founded by Dominican missionaries sometime between 1798-1800 as an extension of

Misión Santo Domingo de la Frontera Misión Santo Domingo was founded among the Kiliwa Indians of Baja California, Mexico, by the Dominicans Miguel Hidalgo and Manuel García in 1775. It is located near Colonia Vicente Guerrero and northeast of San Quintín Bay. History The fir ...

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The visita was located about to the northwest of

and south of Misión San Vicente Ferrer. When geographer

Peveril Meigs Peveril Meigs III (May 5, 1903 – September 16, 1979) was an American geographer, notable for his studies of arid lands on several continents and in particular for his work on the native peoples and early missions of northern Baja California, Mexi ...

investigated the area in 1926, he identified two areas on the Arroyo de San Telmo that had apparently been developed for agricultural use by the Dominicans: San Telmo de Arriba and San Telmo de Abajo, the latter being about 4 kilometers downstream to the southwest from the former.

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* Meigs, Peveril, III. 1935. ''The Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California''. University of California Publications in Geography No. 7. Berkeley. Missions in Baja California Landmarks in Ensenada 1798 establishments in New Spain {{NewSpain-stub

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