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Santo Tomás a town in
It was originally the site of the Misión Santo Tomás de Aquino. After the mission was abandoned, it was taken as a post for the Mexican frontier garrison and for a time as the capital of the territory of Baja California. The town grew up east of the Mission site.
Ensenada Municipality
Ensenada is a municipalities of Mexico, municipality in the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Baja California. It is the fourth-largest municipality in the country, with a land area of in 2020, making slightly smaller than the state of ...
, Baja California
Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of B ...
, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico
The Pacific Coast of Mexico or West Coast of Mexico stretches along the coasts of western Mexico at the Pacific Ocean and its Gulf of California, Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).
Geography
Baja California peninsula
On the western Baja Califor ...
. Santo Tomás is a primarily a wine-growing region
Wines are produced in significant growing regions where vineyards are planted. Wine grapes berries mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degrees of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, typically in regions of Mediterranea ...
, though it is increasingly a tourist destination.
History
It was originally the site of the Misión Santo Tomás de Aquino. After the mission was abandoned, it was taken as a post for the Mexican frontier garrison and for a time as the capital of the territory of Baja California. The town grew up east of the Mission site.
Economy
Santo Tomás is awine-growing region
Wines are produced in significant growing regions where vineyards are planted. Wine grapes berries mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degrees of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, typically in regions of Mediterranea ...
, home to numerous vineyards and wineries. Since the rise in popularity of Valle de Guadalupe as a premier wine region in Baja California, Santo Tomás has begun to develop tourist accommodations, such as hotels and fine dining.
See also
*Spanish missions in California
The Spanish missions in California () formed a List of Spanish missions in California, series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California. The missions were established by ...
References
* Meigs, Peveril, III. 1935. ''The Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California''. University of California Publications in Geography No. 7. Berkeley. * Vernon, Edward W. 2002. ''Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California, 1683-1855''. Viejo Press, Santa Barbara, California. Cities in Ensenada Municipality History of Baja California {{BajaCalifornia-geo-stub