Magdalena de Kino

The city was named after the pioneer Roman Catholic missionary and explorer, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, who worked in the area, as well as in the present-day US state of Arizona.

[citation needed] Mission Santa María Magdalena de Buquivaba[1]: 18  was Kino's personal headquarters from about 1690.

The first chapel was built by Jesuit missionary Luis María Pineli in 1690 or 1691, and burned by natives in 1695 as retaliation for La Matanza.

[citation needed] Native raiders repeatedly destroyed the mission complex during the eighteenth century.

Mission Garden in Tucson, Arizona, includes an area that shows historical Mexican influences on the region's agriculture.