SAN JOSE DE TUMACACORI

Located on highway I-19 about 18 miles north of Nogales, Tumacacori was first listed in 1691 as an outlying visita by the famous Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. By 1701, the village was a visita of the mission at Guevavi, and in 1771,under the Franciscans, the village with its primitive church was made the head mission of the district, and Guevavi was abandoned. Father Font spent several days at Tumacacori while Anza marshalled his forces at Tubac, and the mission contributed a small herd of cattle to the expedition. Construction of the present mission church was begun around 1802. Tumacacori is National Histiroric Park and includes the Calabasas and Guevavi sites