Catholic religious outposts
The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans , Jesuits , Augustinians , and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives . Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain , consisting of what is today Mexico , the Southwestern United States , the Florida and the Luisiana , Central America , the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines ) in order to preach the gospel to these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés , Carlos V sent the first Franciscan friars with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.
Missions
Mapa del Virreinato de la Nueva España (1819)
Topia , the western province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained three major missions: Xiximes , San Andrés , and Santa Cruz de Topia . These were each subdivided into several districts, or partidos , each of which in turn contained several pueblos, or visitas .[ 4]
Xiximes
First district:
San Pablo Hetasi[ 4]
San Pedro de Guarizame[ 4]
Santa Lucia[ 4]
Second district:
Santa Cruz de Yamoriba[ 5]
San Bartolomé de Humase[ 4]
Third district:
Santa Apolonia[ 5]
Concepcion[ 4]
Santiago el Nuevo[ 4]
Fourth district:
San Ignacio[ 4]
San Gerónimo Adia (or Ahoya)[ 4]
San Juan[ 4]
San Francisco Cababayan (or Cabazan)[ 4]
San Agustin[ 4]
San Andrés
First district:
Second district:
Third district:
San Gregorio[ 4]
Sojbupa[ 4]
San Pedro[ 4]
San Mateo de Tecayas[ 4]
Fourth district:
Santa Cruz de Topia
First district:
Second district:
Third district:
Parras , the eastern province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained six major missions with their visitas , as follows.[ 4]
Santa María de Parras
el Pozo
La Peña
Santa Barbara
San Pedro y San Pablo de Laguna
San Lorenzo
San Sebastian
San Ignacio
Santiago
San José de las Abas
Baicuco
Mission San Pablo Tepehuanes [ 5] had the following partidos and visitas :[ 4]
First district:
Santiago Papasquiaro
San Andrés Atotonilco
San Nicolás
Second district:
Santa Catalina
Tepehuanes presidio
Fourth district:
San José Tizonazo
Santa Cruz
Other missions in Nueva Vizcaya included:
Other
Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria.
Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
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