Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera was a Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert.
Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino founded Cocóspera in 1689.
[2] Churches at Cocóspera were burnt by Apaches in 1698, 1746, and 1776, and repeatedly rebuilt by the missionaries.
Due to ongoing Apache raids, the mission was eventually abandoned in 1845.
[2] John Ross Browne sketched the mission in 1864.