Mulegé

Mulegé is an oasis town in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, situated at the mouth of the Río de Santa Rosalía. It is the fourth-largest community in Mulegé Municipality. It had a population of 3,821 according to the Mexican federal census of 2010. The river valley of today's Mulegé was discovered in 1702 by the Jesuit Father Juan Maria de Salvatierra as a place for a mission and consequently for a settlement. Like everywhere in Central and South America, it was the Spanish Conquistadores and behind them, the Spanish Church, who established missions and settlements, with the intention of conquering the entire area for the Church and the Crown. The valley of the then-unnamed river was ideal for a mission and a settlement, because...