An archeological site in southern Arizona, San Cayetano de Calabazas is the remains of a complex series of religious, government, and military occupations begun in 1756 by Spanish missionaries. Significant as the northernmost mission district of established by Jesuits, it consists of adobe and stone ruins and intact archeological deposits of the best preserved examples in the United States of a visita, or "visiting station," a fundamental link in the Spanish effort to acculturate Native Americans to the colonial society of New Spain.

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