The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of

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outposts established by

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, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the

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among the local

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. Since 1493, the

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had maintained a number of missions throughout ''Nueva España'' ( New Spain, consisting of what is today

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, the Southwestern United States, the

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and the

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, the

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and the

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) in order to preach the gospel to these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés,

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sent the first Franciscan

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with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.

Missions

* Mission La Purísima Concepción de Caborca, in

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, Sonora * Mission San Antonio de Oquitoa, in

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, Sonora *Mission San Diagos de Pitiquito Mission, in

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, Sonora *

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in Coahuila * Mission San Ignacio de Cabórica, in Sonora * Mission San Jeronimo, in Aldama, Chihuahua *

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in Coahuila *

Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama is located in Tubutama, Sonora and was first founded in 1691 by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. Father Antonio de los Reyes on 6 July 1772 submitted a report on the condition of the missions in the Upp ...

, in

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, Sonora *Mission Santa Maria Magdalena, in Sonora * Mission Santa Rosalía in

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* Mission Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera, in Cocóspera, Sonora * Mission Dulce Nombre de Jesus de Peyotes in Villa Union, Coahuila * Mission San Andres in

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* Mission San Buenaventura de la Consolación in San Buenaventura, Coahuila * Mission Nuestra Señora de Dolores de la Punta in Lampazos, Coahuila * Mission San Bernardino de la Candela in

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, Coahuila * Mission San Buenaventura in Cuatrocienegas, Coahuila * Mission Santa Rosa de Nadadores in

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, Coahuila * Mission San Francisco de Saltillo in

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, Coahuila * Mission San Miguel de Aguayo in

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, Coahuila *

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of Querétaro *

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References

External links

Mexico's colonial era — Part II: Religion & Society in New Spain

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Missions

See also

References

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