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The ruins of a Spanish colonial mission founded by Father Kino in 1691, the oldest mission site in southern Arizona, preserved as a national historical park in the Santa Cruz River valley.
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- ·Coords from Wikipedia. KEY FACTS: (1) Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori founded 1691 by Jesuit Father Eusebio Kino — among the two oldest missions in southern AZ; (2) the surviving Franciscan adobe church (Mission San José de Tumacácori) was built in the 1750s; (3) park has three units — Tumacácori, Guevavi, and Calabazas (est. 1756) — across 360 acres in Santa Cruz County; (4) proclaimed a National Monument Aug 6, 1908 by Theodore Roosevelt, redesignated National Historical Park 1990; (5) NRHP Oct 15, 1966; the two missions plus the 1937 museum building are National Historic Landmarks. ~45mi S of Tucson near Tubac/Nogales.
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