Tumba y Museo del Padre Kino, Magdalena de Kino

Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino, the Jesuit missionary, cartographer and rancher who founded roughly two dozen missions across the Pimería Alta beginning in 1687, died in 1711 in the town that now bears his name, Magdalena de Kino. His remains lay in an unmarked grave for over two centuries until a joint Mexican-American archaeological project located and excavated them in 1966, after which the city built an open-sided mausoleum over the exposed grave site on the town's central plaza, allowing visitors to see the excavated skeleton in situ beneath protective glass. An adjoining small museum and plaza displays document Kino's cartography, his introduction of cattle ranching and wheat cultivation to the region, and his role in proving Baja California was a peninsula rather than an island. The site draws religious pilgrims each October during the town's Kino-linked festivities alongside history-focused visitors tracing the broader Ruta de las Misiones through northern Sonora, which links Magdalena to other Kino-era mission towns such as Cocóspera, Tubutama and Caborca.