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Loreto

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Baja California Sur, Mexico
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About Loreto

Loreto is a Mexican city in the nation of Baja California Sur. It is the pinnacle of the homonymous municipality and is located 354 km north of La Paz, capital of the country. The basis of the city of Loreto is closely connected to the founding of the Mission of Our Lady of Loreto; it became the capital of Las Californias from 1697 to 1777, the yr wherein the capital became changed to Monterey, California. Loreto become based in 1697 by means of Jesuit missionary parents. The creation of the primary church of the Mission of Our Lady of Loreto started in 1697 and ended on September 8, 1703.

The city is a tourist center that draws particularly American and Canadian travelers, with each day flights from the US arriving at Loreto International Airport. When the Spaniards arrived in the vicinity, there were 3 properly-defined tribal corporations: the Pericues, Monguis, Guaycuras and Cochimies. The Pericues inhabited the southern a part of the peninsula and prolonged to the north, from Cabo San Lucas to the middle of the peninsula, the guaycuras inhabited the middle and the Cochimies, in the extreme north.

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