The Cochimí

Cochimi

The Cochimí are the aboriginal inhabitants of the central part of the Baja California peninsula, from El Rosario in the north to San Javier in the south....

 settlement of Calamajué in Baja California

Baja California

Baja California officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North...

, Mexico was briefly, in 1766–1767, a Jesuit visita or subordinate mission station.

About 90 kilometers north of San Borja

Misión San Francisco Borja

San Borja was a Spanish mission established in 1762 by the Jesuit Wenceslaus Linck at the Cochimí settlement of Adac, west of Bahía de los Ángeles....

, Calamajué was found by the Jesuit missionary-explorer Ferdinand Konščak

Ferdinand Konšcak

Ferdinand Konščak was a Jesuit missionary, explorer, and cartographer.-Education:...

 in 1751. It was intended to become the site of Mission Santa María

Misión Santa María de los Ángeles

Mission Santa María de los Ángeles was the last of the missions established by the Jesuits in Baja California, Mexico, in 1767. The site chosen was the Cochimí settlement of Cabujakaamung , west of Bahía San Luis Gonzaga near the Gulf of California coast, about 22 kilometers east of Rancho Santa...

. However, an apparently more suitable site for the latter was found about 50 kilometers farther north, at Cabujakaamung.

Calamajué also served as a travel station on the Camino Real Misionero between San Borja and Santa María. Adobe ruins and rock corrals now mark the location.

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...