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Baja California Sur, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, [b] is the least populated state and the 31st and last state to be admitted to Mexico, in 1974. It is also the ninth-largest Mexican state in terms of area.
The Territory of Baja California Sur was a Mexican federal territory that existed from 1931 to 1974. Its former area currently comprises the Mexican state of Baja California Sur , located in the southern part of the Baja California peninsula .
[6] [7] The Baja California peninsula, the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), and the states of California, Baja California and Baja California Sur, bear the name today. From 10 January 1854, to 8 May 1854, La Paz served as the capital of William Walker's Republic of Sonora. The project collapsed due to lack of US support and ...
Mission San José de Comondú was one of the Jesuit missions established early in the 18th century in Baja California Sur, Mexico, west of Loreto on an arroyo flowing to the Pacific coast. Over the course of its existence, the mission was twice relocated.
Mission Santa Gertrudis (Spanish: Misión Santa Gertrudis), originally to be called Dolores del Norte, was a Spanish mission established by the Jesuit missionary Georg Retz in 1752 in what is today the Mexican state of Baja California. It is located about 80 km (50 mi) north of San Ignacio, Baja California Sur.
Loreto's Key Role in the Early History of the Californias (1697–1773). California Mission Studies Association. Salvatierra, Juan María. 1971.Selected Letters about Lower California. Edited by Ernest J. Burrus. Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. Vernon, Edward W. 2002. Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California, 1683–1855 ...
The locale has certain basaltic soils, providing clues as to the volcanic history of this region. There are a variety of desert flora and fauna in the vicinity of San Ignacio, notably including the elephant tree, (Bursera microphylla). [3] At San Ignacio, Baja California's arid Central Desert terrain gives way to a large grove of lush green ...
The Misión Estero de las Palmas de San José del Cabo Añuití was founded in 1730 on the west bank of the nearby Río San José, which flows into the largest body of freshwater in Baja California Sur, an estuary, after flowing largely subterraneanly for 39.1 kilometres (24.3 mi) from its origin in the Sierra de la Laguna (Laguna