THE MISSIONS AND VISITS LOCATED IN BAJA CALIFORNIA: THEIR LOCATION WITHIN THE RECENT TERRITORIAL CONFIGURATION

The purpose of this article is to have an accessible and synthesized document that describes the architectural characteristics, the location of the existing missions in Baja California as well as the most recent territorial changes in the entity, which from the perspective of the patrimonial preservation, will imply the governmental reorganization in conservation and safeguarding issues.An extensive bibliographic and cartographic review is carried out and through the support of tools such as GIS, it was possible to process government vectorial information for the recognition of the new municipal limits where the Jesuit, Franciscan and Dominican missions and visits are geographically located.Important moments are established that have shaped the social and cultural changes of the main native and current populations of the Entity and their specific articulation with the missionary architecture.Being an academic instrument, directed in principle to architecture students, a synthesis of the number of visits and missions, antecedents, constructive characteristics and geographic location within the State of Baja California is presented.