tehag
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Maria Auxiliadora
Another very small BCS town. Anybody know it?
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Paulina
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Someone has to know the triangle church! (I don't)
P<*)))>{
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oladulce
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I'm embarrassed to say the map I found shows this town just outside of Ignacio Zaragosa, which means I've been driving by it for 16 years. The pink
church looks familiar and I've seen a sign for "Maria Auxiliadora" but didn't realize that was the name of the town- I thought it was like a rotary
club roadside sign and it was announcing the "Maria Auxillary" duh...
Thank you Tehag.
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bajajudy
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BEE UUU TEEE FULL
I havent a clue where it is though.
cheers tehag
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Gypsy Jan
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Wishful Thinking
Wish that I know where it is located, wish that I have visited it, wish that I know its history.
Perhaps soon the wishes will be fulfilled.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
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\"Alea iacta est.\"
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Paula
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Is it near Loreto, Tehag? I'd love to visit that church, very unusual!
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Skipjack Joe
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Perhaps at El Triunfo?
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David K
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History (from the 1962 Lower California Guidebook)
The colony of Maria Auxiliadora was established in 1942 (3.3 miles south of Santo Domingo) by the Sinarquistas, a miltant religious (Roman Catholic)
group allied with the Spanish Falange.
Some 400 destitute peasants from central Mexico were brought here, but only a few families remain.
Later other groups of colonists were brought over by the Government and a number of cooperative farming colonies have been formed, extending about 60
miles south along the Magdalena Plain.
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tehag
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Maria Auxiliadora
Thanks David. That's the place.
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DianaT
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The photo of the inside of that church is magnificent.
Thanks
Diane
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tehag
Thanks David. That's the place. |
You're welcome! I have always wondered if there was anything still there... and I have stared at that place on the map for years! It was interesting
in that there is no road to it shown in the book, and wondered if the town (what was left of it) requested Howard Gulick to not show a road to it to
maintain some sort of seclusion?
Thank you for the great contribution of showing an out of the way Baja site!
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tehag
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Maria Auxiliadora
Not very secluded these days; big sign on the main road from Insurgentes to San Juanico and paved right into town.
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David K
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Bad roads = Good people! 
Good roads = All kinds of people! 
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BAJACAT
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Hey Im one of those All kinds of people.
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BAJACAT
Hey Im one of those All kinds of people. |
Nope Jose... you are one of the 'good people'!!!
I did get your message last week... was just waiting for that call back!
May be at the Del Mar Fair Sunday (wearing Baja Nomad shirt and got baja? hat)!
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