Full name: Santa María de los Angeles
Founding date: October 16, 1766 (relocated 30 miles northwest and renamed on May 26, 1767) Mission #17
Catholic Order: Jesuit
Founded by: Padre Victoriano Arnés, Padre Juan Diez
Condition: Adobe outlines at 1766 site. Adobe buildings at second site, from 1768-1769.
Closing date: Abandoned in 1774 or 1775.
GPS/ Access: 29.731742, -114.547379 (second site/ Santa María), Mex. #1, Km. 181 (Santa Ynez), east 15 miles.
Read more:
https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/mission_santa_maria
The following are my photos from five visits to Mission Santa María, from the photo albums of VivaBaja.com, showing the man-made artifacts from the 1700s (mainly in 1768 by the Franciscans who replaced the Jesuits in California, who founded this mission in October 1766 (at Calamajué) and moved it here in May 1767, for better water. The mission was abandoned after the 1774 census, by the Dominicans. They replaced the Franciscans in Baja California, in 1773.
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2022
The next morning:
2010
A Howard Gulick photo from the same location in 1961, to compare:
2007
2003:
1999:
Historic photos from others:
- GPS: 29.731742, -114.547379
- Directions: Highway #1, Km. 180.8 (south from San Quintín), then 15 miles east on an extremely difficult and potentially dangerous 4×4 trail!
- 2022 Trip Photo Album: https://vivabaja.com/msm2022/
- 2010 Trip Photo Album: https://vivabaja.com/msm2010/
- 2007 Trip Photo Album: https://vivabaja.com/msm/
- 2003 Trip Photo Album: https://vivabaja.com/p403/
- 1999 Trip Photo Album: https://vivabaja.com/missionsm/
- Mission Santo Domingo in photos: https://vivabaja.com/santo-domingo-in-photos/
- Mission Rosario de Arriba in photos: https://vivabaja.com/rosario-de-arriba/
- Mission Rosario de Abajo in photos: https://vivabaja.com/rosario-de-abajo
- Mission San Fernando in photos: https://vivabaja.com/san-fernando/
- Mission San Borja in photos: https://vivabaja.com/san-borja/
- Mission Santa Gertrudis in photos: https://vivabaja.com/santa-gertrudis/
- Mission San Ignacio in photos
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- All the missions, quick look and history, north to south: https://vivabaja.com/mission-site-photos/