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Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción. Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción was founded near what is now Yuma, Arizona, United States, on the California side of the Colorado River, in October 1780, by Father Francisco Garcés. The settlement was not part of the California mission chain but was administered as a part of the Spanish missions ...
Location in California. La Purísima Mission (the United States) Show map of California Show map of the United States Show all. Location. 2295 Purisima Road, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California 93436. Coordinates. 34°40′13.692″N 120°25′14.2206″W. / 34.67047000°N 120.420616833°W / 34.67047000; -120.420616833. Name as ...
Mission La Purísima, was founded west of Loreto in Baja California Sur, by the Jesuit missionary Nicolás Tamaral in 1720 and financed by the Marqués de Villapuente de la Peña and his wife the Marquesa de las Torres de Rada. By 1735 it had been moved to a new location at the Cochimí ranchería known as Cadegomó, meaning "arroyo of the ...
The Colegio de Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, is the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas [1] and the first major school of interpreters and translators in the New World. [2] It was established by the Franciscans on January 6, 1536 [3] with the intention, as is generally accepted, of preparing Native ...
The Convento de la Purísima Concepción, also called Convento de Capuchinas, is a convent located in the city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The buildings are late 17th century although the institution developed from an earlier Augustinian community. [ 1] The chapel was completed by 1671, the year in which it was consecrated; and by ...
Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción - Cebu, also known by its acronym CIC, is a private Catholic basic education institution operated by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul in Cebu City, Philippines. It began operation on May 30, 1880, in its Cebu City campus and originally was an all-girls school, making it the first school for ...
The Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (Spanish: Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico) is a public conservatory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [2] It has hosted a number of international musicians as students as well as faculty, and has a longstanding relationship with the classical music movement in Puerto Rico, including the annual Casals Festival and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO).
Rancho La Purísima Concepción was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Gorgonio and his son José Ramon, Ohlone Native Americans. [1] The granted extended from Matadero Creek ( Rancho Corte de Madera) to Adobe Creek and encompassed present ...