Mission of San Jose de Tumacacori
Pinkley F. 2007. Mission of San Jose de Tumacacori
The Tumacacori National Monument was first created by a proclamation dated September 15, 1908 (35 Stat., 2205), to protect the ruins of the Tumacacori Mission. The Monument contains an area of 10 acres. The ruins of this mission are well worth preserving as they are more than of local or state interest in that they represent one of the units of the first line of settlements pushed into the United States west of the Rio Grande. The Tumacacori Mission should not be studied alone but should be considered as one unit in a chain of missions, in which chain the other Arizona missions were San Gabriel de Guevavi, San Cayetano de Calabasas, St. Gertrude de Tubac, and San Xavier del Bac. Tumacacori Mission, in earlier times called San Cayetano de Tumacacori and later re-named San Jose de Tumacacori, is located 49 miles south of Tucson and a little more than 18 miles north of Nogales, in southern Arizona.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Pinkley, Frank
- Date of Issue
- 2007-04
- Units
- HIST , TUMA
- Keywords
- Archeology, ehistory, History, Religion, Ruins, San Cayetano de Tumacacori, Settlement, Spanish, Tumacacori Mission
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 001343: Mission Church