Juan de Ugarte
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Juan de Ugarte, S.J., was a Jesuit missionary and explorer in Baja California Sur, New Spain, and the successor to Juan María de Salvatierra as head of the peninsula's missions.
Juan de Ugarte, S.J.
Baja California Sur
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Baja California Sur, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is a state in Mexico. It is the 31st and last state to be admitted, in 1974. It is also the least densely populated
Juan de Ugarte
…Juan de Ugarte, S.J., (1662–1730) was a Jesuit missionary and explorer in Baja California Sur, New Spain, and the successor to Juan María de Salvatierra as head of the peninsula's missions. Ugarte was born in Tegucigalpa, then in the Kingdom of…
California women, probably Pericúes, 1726
Former 18th century mission bell tower of Cathedral of La Paz, Baja California Sur
Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, is the first successful of Baja California missions
Marines raising the American flag over La Paz after the surprise Battle of La Paz near Mexican–American War end, 1847.