Misión Santa Rosalía de Mulegé

It is an Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia listed Cultural Heritage Monument.

The mission is named after both Saint Rosalia and the indigenous Cochimí settlement of Mulegé.

The mission was founded in 1705[1] by the Jesuit missionary Juan Manuel de Basaldúa and financed by the Marqués de Villapuente at a ranchería of the local Cochimí people known as Mulegé, on the eastern Baja California Peninsula, in Viceroyalty of New Spain.

The site lies near the entrance of Bahía de Concepción, on the coast of the Gulf of California.

In 1768, when the Franciscans took over responsibility for colonial Baja California from the Jesuits, there were reportedly still some 300 Cochimí neophytes kept at Mulegé.