An important religious and mission complex in Baja California, it is one of eighteen established by the Mexican Province of the Company of Jesus, to teach, evangelize and protect the ethnic groups in the region from sins. This lasted until all Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish empire in…

The El Boleo Museum (officially the Santa Rosalía Mining History Museum) is a cultural center located in Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, which preserves the legacy of the French mining company “El Boleo” that operated between 1885 and 1954. The museum is not only an exhibition space, but…

A modern building houses some thousand-year old remains of human life in the state. The museum shows the geology of the peninsula, fossils, its unique natural environment, the life of early settlers and their extraordinary cave paintings, the Jesuit Missions, and ethnology.