Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá

Another mission bearing the name San Fernando Rey de España is located in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

Statue of Junípero Serra, the mission's founder, with the mission's facade.

Located in Baja California, Mexico about 200 miles south of Ensenada, Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá was the only mission founded by Franciscans in Baja California.

The site for the future mission was identified by the Jesuit missionary-explorer Wenceslaus Linck in 1766. After the Jesuits were replaced by the Franciscans in 1768, the latter were charged with extending Spanish control far to the north, into Alta California in 1769. Mission San Fernando, at the Cochimí settlement of Velicatá on the route north, was inaugurated by Junípero Serra.

In the 1770s, under the Franciscans and then after 1773 under their Dominican successors, the mission quickly reached its peak and went into decline as epidemics decimated the native population. A missionary was no longer permanently resident at the site after about 1818. A few ruined walls and stone foundations survive at the site as well as petroglyphs and some remains of pictograms.

References

• Sauer, Carl O., and Peveril Meigs. 1927. "Site and Culture at San Fernando Velicatá". University of California Publications in Geography 2:271–302. Berkeley.
• Vernon, Edward W. 2002. Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California, 1683–1855. Viejo Press, Santa Barbara, California.
• Meighan, Clement. Seven Rock Art Sites in Baja California Ballena Press, 1978.
• Aschmann, Homer. 1959. The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology. Manessier Press, San Diego, California.

See also

• Spanish missions in California

External links

New Spain portal

• http://www.hotel-calafia.com/History-Missions.jsp
• http://www.bajacalifologia.org/english/history.htm
• bajamissions The Spanish missions and visitas of Baja California.

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