Misión Santa Catarina Virgen y Mártir
Ruins · Mexico
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1797
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.827, -115.821
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Archaeological investigations of the mission's traces are in progress.
History
Mission Santa Catarina was a Spanish mission in present-day Valle del Álamo in Baja California, Mexico. It was founded on 12 November 1797 by the Dominican missionary José Loriente. Virtually nothing remains of the original structures. Archaeological investigations of the mission's traces are in progress.