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The Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Misiones jesuíticas en el desierto de Sonora) are a series of Jesuit Catholic religious outposts established by the Spanish Catholic Jesuits and other orders for religious conversions of the Pima and Tohono O'odham indigenous peoples residing in the Sonoran Desert.
This is a list of lists of Spanish missions in the Americas. The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America
San Estanislao del Ootcam was a Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert, founded at a site originally called Gubo Verde. Its location is now lost. Its location is now lost. [ 1 ]
Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert. The Pimería Alta (translated to 'Upper Pima Land'/'Land of the Upper Pima' in English) was an area of the 18th century Sonora y Sinaloa Province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, that encompassed parts of what are today southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora in Mexico.
On Spanish Missions: Spanish missions in Arizona; Spanish missions in Baja California; Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert (including Sonora and southern Arizona) On California history: Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail; History of California through 1899; History of the west coast of North America; Mission Vieja; On general ...
On Spanish Missions in neighboring regions: Spanish missions in California; Spanish missions in New Mexico; Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert (including Sonora and southern Arizona) On general missionary history: Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery; List of the oldest churches in Mexico; On colonial Spanish American history:
The missions facilitated the expansion of the Spanish empire through the religious conversion of the indigenous peoples occupying those areas. While the Spanish Crown dominated the political, economic, and social realms of the Americas and people indigenous to the region, the Catholic Church dominated the religious and spiritual realm.
Colonial settlements established around Spanish missions in North America — located in the Viceroyalty of New Spain territories that were within North America.