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[*] posted on 4-14-2026 at 04:32 PM
Mission San Javier in a 1960 photo


From the 1960 Copley book, The Explorers by Richard F. Pourade






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[*] posted on 4-14-2026 at 04:42 PM


See all the San Javier album: https://vivabaja.com/san-javier/

See all the mission albums made, so far: https://vivabaja.com/baja-mission-albums/




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[*] posted on 4-16-2026 at 10:22 AM


Gracias David. The missions are impressive indeed. Timeless as the photo shows
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[*] posted on 4-17-2026 at 07:29 AM


Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco  
Gracias David. The missions are impressive indeed. Timeless as the photo shows


So right, you are!

Since I began focusing on the missions in the latter years of my Baja travels, I have revised how to show them in a way to increase interest or just awareness.
They certainly give me a project to play with in my retirement!

My first devoted website (VivaBaja.com) pages for them was:
www.vivabaja.com/missions1 = The Jesuit missions (#1-#17). Listed in the order of their founding (Loreto to Santa María).

www.vivabaja.com/missions2 = The Franciscan & Dominican missions (#18-#27)

Then a page for the mission visitas (satellite visiting stations/ chapels):
www.vivabaja.com/missions3

Finally, a page for the mission locations with a Google Earth view down:
www.vivabaja.com/missions4

NEXT, I made a single page to show the missions' latest photo with basic history and location from north to south, as one might travel down the peninsula, with a link to my Baja Bound article on it:
https://vivabaja.com/mission-site-photos/ plus a page to show the visitas, also from north to south: https://vivabaja.com/mission-site-photos/2/

This new project is a more complete page or 'album' for each mission with both mine and historic photos, mission floor plans by INAH and Peveril Meigs, maps, and the chapter from my 2016 book, Baja California Land of Missions, recently out-of-print:
https://vivabaja.com/mission-albums/

Each mission has one page or album and a couple missions have two, to show both sites: (El Rosario, Arriba & Abajo) and (Calamajué & Santa María).

Okay, back to work... building the Dolores mission album now! https://vivabaja.com/dolores/




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