San Jose del Cabo Church

Cabo San Lucas – San Jose del Cabo, Los Cabos, MexicoThe Mission San Jose del Cabo Añuití was the southernmost of the missions Jesuit established during the colonial period of the history of Mexico in the territory of the Old California corresponding to the state of Baja California Sur. The mission was dedicated to St. Joseph, and was built on the site that pericúes called Añuití . Currently, part of the town of San Jose del Cabo ( Baja California Sur ).The mission was provided or funded its construction by the Marquis de Villapuente de la Peña (born in 1670 Muriedas, Santander, and died at the Imperial College of the Jesuits, 1739 Madrid, Spain). The mission was built by the missionary Father Nicholas Tamaral and visitador Jose Echeverria (1730). Initially the mission was built with fragile materials near the beach and later change the location to a farther from the coast (8 site km ).The region of Los Cabos forms the southern peninsula of California , and it was quite a site visited by Spanish and English navigators near two centuries before the establishment of the mission Añuití, which also involved the sedentarization (settling of a nomadic population) of pericúes natives.