Misión San Juan Bautista Malibat

Misión San Juan Bautista Malibat, also known as the Misión San Juan Bautista de Ligüí, was founded by the Jesuit missionary Pedro de Ugarte in November 1705, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Loreto near the Gulf of California coast of what is today the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

The numbers of the Monqui, who called their rancheria at the site Ligui, rapidly diminished, possibly due to European diseases.

The more intractable Pericúes lived on nearby islands and sometimes raided the mission and its stores.

[1] Ugarte left the mission because of ill health in 1709, and, thereafter, a Jesuit missionary was not always present.

Surviving archaeological remnants of the abandoned mission include several sections of building foundations.