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The San Xavier Indian Reservation (O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area and consists of 111.543 sq mi (288.90 km 2 ) of land area, about 2.5 percent of the Tohono O ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac (Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation.
Today, many Oʼodham live in the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, the San Xavier Indian Reservation, the Gila River Indian Community, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community or off-reservation in one of the cities or towns of Arizona. They have also historically been referred to as Hímeris. [3]
The land area is 97.48 percent of the reservation's total, and the population is 77.65 percent of the total of the entire reservation lands. The San Xavier Reservation, at , is located in Pima County, in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area. It has a land area of 288.895 square kilometres (111.543 sq mi) and a resident ...
The Tohono O'odham Nation governs four separate pieces of land, including the Tohono O'odham and San Xavier Indian Reservations and the San Lucy district near Gila Bend. Tonto Apache Reservation: Tonto Apache: Dilzhę́’é 1974 120 0.13 (0.34) Gila: White Mountain Apache Reservation: Apache (White Mountain) Dził Łigai Si'án N'dee 1891 13,409
Mission San Xavier del Bac: San Xavier Indian Reservation near Tucson, Arizona: 1783-1797 Church Rebuilt in 1783 near site of an earlier razed church built in 1692 [5] Likely the oldest Spanish colonial/European built structure in Arizona. Cordova House: Tucson, Arizona: ca. 1848 Residence Oldest house in Tucson; now part of Tucson Museum of ...
San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia; San Xavier, Arizona, a town; San Xavier Indian Reservation, near Tucson, Arizona, United States Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission on San Xavier Indian Reservation; San Xavier talus snail or Sonorella eremita, a species of air-breathing land snail
Today, the San Xavier Indian Reservation, the second largest Indian reservation in Arizona, is situated in this region, as are the physical vestiges of mission structures and several presidios in both Arizona and Sonora. The ecological impact of European and American colonization in the region has been heavy, with many sources of water ...