PRESIDIO DE SAN IGNACIO DE TUBAC

Located four miles north of Tumacacori, the Presidio de San Ignacio de Tubac was founde in 1752 in response to a Pima revolt. The area had been a Pima village before becoming a mission farm. The fifty calverymen garrisioned at this remote outpost were to control the Pimas, protect the frontier from the Apaches and Seris, and further explore the Southwest. Juan Baustista de Anza II, second commander of the presidio, staged two overland expeditions to Alta California from this place. The ruins of this house can be viewed through an underground archeological exhibit at Tubac Presidio State Historical Park. About ten acres of the original site are within the state park and 23 acres are in private ownership.Thirteen acres of the private land are leased by the Center for Spanish Colonial Archeology. The Anza trail runs through this property.