Two names were given in succession to the Jesuit mission at Todos Santos

Todos Santos, Baja California Sur

Todos Santos is a small coastal town at the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains, on the Pacific coast side of the Baja California Peninsula, about an hour's drive north of Cabo San Lucas on Highway 19 and an hour's drive southwest from La Paz. Todos Santos is located very near the Tropic...

 in southern Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur , is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state on October 8, 1974, the area was known as the South Territory of Baja California. It has an area of , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises...

, Mexico: Santa Rosa de las Palmas, and Nuestra Señora del Pilar de la Paz.

The site was initially a visita, or subordinate mission station of the mission at La Paz

Misión de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de La Paz Airapí

Mission La Paz was established by the Jesuit missionaries Juan de Ugarte and Jaime Bravo in 1720, at the location of the modern city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico....

, established in 1724 by Jaime Bravo. It became the independent mission of Santa Rosa in 1733 under Sigismundo Taraval

Sigismundo Taraval

Sigismundo Taraval was a pioneering Jesuit missionary in Baja California who left important historical accounts of the peninsula.Born in Lodi, Lombardy, he served initially as missionary at La Purísima and San Ignacio, among the Cochimí...

. However, it was destroyed in the following year during the great revolt of the local Pericú

Pericúes

The Pericú were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Cape Region, the southernmost portion of Baja California Sur, Mexico...

 and Guaycura

Guaycura

The Guaycura were a native people of Baja California Sur, Mexico, occupying an area extending south from south of Loreto to Todos Santos. They contested the area around La Paz with the Pericú....

 Indians. The mission was reestablished in 1735, and its dwindling population was augmented in 1748 when the remaining neophytes at La Paz were moved to Todos Santos and the mission took over the designation of its parent colony. The mission was finally closed in 1840.

See also

• Spanish missions in California
  Spanish missions in California
  The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans. The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to...