San Lázaro was a Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert.
Located in the Santa Cruz River valley, the European settlement was founded as a cattle ranch by José Romo de Vivar.
[1] Kino oversaw the building of a mission church in 1706.
[1] John Ross Browne sketched the mission in 1864.
[2] By the late 1860s, it was deserted due to Apache raids.