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Place in Baja California Sur, Mexico
Photo: Tomás Castelazo, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
San Ignacio is a town of 670 people (2010) in Baja California. It has a beautiful old mission, and is the gateway to San Ignacio Lagoon, the winter time sanctuary of the Pacific gray whale.
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Nice old mission founded by a Jesuit missionary in 1728 and served as the base for later Jesuit expansion in the central peninsula. The impressive church was constructed by the Dominican missionary Juan Gómez in 1786. The mission was abandoned in 1840.
Small historical museum that summarizes finds from some of the Vizcaino area's archaeological sites and features an excellent reproduction of prehistoric rock paintings found in the area.
San Ignacio is 77 km west of Santa Rosalía toward Guerrero Negro on the Mexican Federal Highway 1.
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