Spanish missions in Mexico

Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria.

The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of Mexico and portions of what today are the Southwestern United States) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan monks with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.

[edit] Missions

Misión La Purísima Concepción de Caborca, in Caborca, Sonora [1]
Misión San Antonio de Oquitoa, in Oquitoa, Sonora [2]
Misión San Diego de Pitiquito Mission, in Pitiquito, Sonora [3]
Mission San Francisco Solano in Coahuila [4][5]
Misión San Ignacio de Cabórica, in Sonora [6]
Mission San Juan Bautista in Coahuila [7]
Misión San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama, in Tubutama, Sonora [8]
Misión Santa Maria Magdalena, in Sonora [9]
Misión Santa Rosalía in Camargo, Chihuahua
Misión Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera, in Cocóspera, Sonora [10]
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl