This cache is located a monument honoring Father Eusebio
Franscisco Kino 1654 - 1711.
“Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, was one of the
early Spanish explorers of the deserts of the American Southwest.
In addition to establishing a number of missions in the New World,
he proved that Lower California was a peninsula, the Baja Peninsula
-- not an island as had previously been believed.
Eusebio Kino was born in Segno, in the Val di Non, a valley in
Tirol (now in Italy), on Aug. 10, 1645. He distinguished himself in
the studiy of mathematics, cartography, and astronomy in Germany
and taught mathematics for a time at the University of Ingolstadt.
He became a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1665. His
work as a missionary began in 1678, and he was assigned to Spain's
colony in Mexico.
Kino arrived in Mexico City in the spring of 1681. After an
abortive mission to Baja California in 1683, he began his longtime
mission to the Pima Indians in Pimeria Alta, a district comprising
present-day southern Arizona and the northern portion of Sonora
State in Mexico.
In 1687, Father Kino established his first mission among the rural
Indians of Sonora at Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. It became the
headquarters for his explorations, as well as for the founding of
other missions, including San Xavier del Bac (1700) near Tucson,
Guevavi and Tumacacori.
In 1691, Father Kino made the first of about 40 expeditions into
Arizona. In 1694, he was the first European to visit to Hohokam
ruins of Casa Grande (now a national monument). He is also said to
have explored the sources of the Rio Grande, the Colorado and Gila
rivers. His explorations of the area around the mouth of the
Colorado River in 1701 convinced him that Baja California was a
peninsula, not an island. His 1705 map was the standard reference
for the southwestern desert region for more than a century.
Father Kino helped the Pima Indians diversify their agriculture and
aided them in their constant wars with the Apaches, while opposing
Indian enslavement in the silver mines of northern Mexico. Father
Eusebio Kino died at Mission Magdalena in Sonora on March 15,
1711.”
Bob Katz
The cache container is well, hidden please
replace container in the same place and as well hidden as it was
found.
The cache only contains a log sheet, some bring your own writing
stick.
Remember this by a very busy street and sometimes there a
muggles in the area, so be stealthy.
The no log, no find rule applies here.
Happy Hunting ....