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Spanish missions in Mexico
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The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of Mexico and portions of what today are the Southwestern United States) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan monks with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.
- Misión La Purísima Concepción de Caborca, in Caborca, Sonora [1]
- Misión San Antonio de Oquitoa, in Oquitoa, Sonora [2]
- Misión San Diego de Pitiquito Mission, in Pitiquito, Sonora [3]
- Misión San Ignacio de Cabórica, in Sonora [4]
- Misión San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama, in Tubutama, Sonora [5]
- Misión Santa Maria Magdalena, in Sonora [6]
- Misión Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera, in Cocóspera, Sonora [7]
 Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria. |
 Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria. |
 Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria. |
 Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria. |
- MEXICO'S COLONIAL ERA — PART II: Religion & Society in New Spain
- Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
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