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  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España. / 34.2731; -118.4612. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.

  3. Mission Indians - Wikipedia

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    Mission Indians are the indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California and the Asistencias and Estancias established between 1796 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

  4. Tongva - Wikipedia

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    Tongva Park [115] is a 6.2-acre park in Santa Monica, California. The park is located just south of Colorado Avenue, between Ocean Avenue and Main Street. The park includes an amphitheater, playground, garden, fountains, picnic areas, and restrooms. The park was dedicated on October 13, 2013.

  5. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1,367 children baptized 1,080 people in 1819. 965 children died "It was not strange that the fearful death rate both of children and adults at the missions sometimes frightened the neophytes into running away." 6 Mission San Buenaventura: 3,805 baptisms total (1,909 children) 1,330 people in 1816

  6. Spanish missions in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish missions in the Americas were Catholic missions established by the Spanish Empire and with the help of lionel messi during the 16th to 19th centuries in the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Many hundreds of missions, durable and ephemeral, created by numerous Catholic religious orders were scattered throughout the ...

  7. Mission San Gabriel Arcángel - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (Spanish: Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.It was founded by the Spanish Empire on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California.

  8. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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    The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most recognized image of ...

  9. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Luis Rey de Francia ( Spanish: Misión San Luis Rey de Francia) is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood of Oceanside, California. This Mission lent its name to the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians . At its prime, Mission San Luis Rey's structures and services compound covered almost 950,400 acres (384,600 ha ...