Abstract

GUILLEN GONZALEZ-NOVO, Juan Manuel. San Francisco Regis and El Paraíso Two pueblos de visita of the Mission of San Francisco de Borja. Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2023, n.69, pp.71-114.  Epub Feb 27, 2024. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2023.69.77764.

This article highlights how both the pueblos de visita and other places, alongside the main villages (cabecera) of the Californian Jesuit missions combined their production efforts. The hypothesis is that the production of resources -agricultural and from cattle farming- at the cabeceras was not restricted to the areas closest to the missionary temple. After calculating the estimates of production of the arable lands from two places -San Francisco Regis and El Paraíso -near the mission of San Francisco de Borja, and subsequently deducing the maximum production rate of each, according to descriptions provided by the missionaries in their chronicles, it can be concluded that the mission relied on the resources obtained from the afore mentioned two places in order to feed its population. Therefore, we consider that it is necessary to study the places annexed to the missions, in order to appreciate their productive potential more rigorously.

Keywords : mission; Jesuits; California; pueblos de visita; production.