you will find the beautiful and historic city of San José del Cabo, designed by Sebastián Vizcaíno as the 'Puerto de San Bernabé,' in the 16th Century, while he was searching for cover for the Nao de China which traveled from Manila to Acapulco and were frequently attacked by pirates.

This port was of great navigational importance as it possessed a fresh-water spring, offering a secure source of this vital liquid to the ships arriving from Asia, and was known during this period as the 'Secure Water.'

San José del Cabo was founded on April 8, 1730., and this mission was originally founded close to the beach, on the banks of the estuary, but was later relocated to the town of San José Viejo.

With the passage of time, Father Tamaral built the mission in what is nowadays Santa Rosa, the site where the missionary was finally sacrificed in 1734 during the pericúes insurrection, the same group who had earlier killed Father Lorenzo Carranco at the Santiago Mission (Aiñini).

At the end of, and as a consequence of the indigenous uprising, the prison of San José was built in 1737; the governor being Bernardo Rodríguez Larrea; this prison was provided with a detail of 30 soldiers, under the order that it would act independently of the President of Loreto and without the interference of the missionaries, which caused a succession of problems, among which was the maltreatment of the indigenous population by the soldiers, and grave delays in the colonization of the area, finally ending in the revocation of the original order.

In 1793, this temple was destroyed by flood waters and then reconstructed in 1799. An attack from the ship 'Independencia,' by Chilean insurgents, was repelled on February 17, 1822., but left the mission in such dire conditions that it was abandoned permanently in 1840, due also to a lack of personnel to maintain its upkeep.

Currently, San José del Cabo shines out on the universal panorama. Forming, with Cabo San Lucas, a tourist corridor along a 33-kilometer coastline, where, in addition to the extra-ordinary beauty of the region, made up of dream-like beaches apt for all the differing water sports you can think of, it offers a wealth of variety in terms of tourist services, including an international airport, hotels covering all the categories, marinas, golf course, tennis courts, extra-ordinary restaurants offering the best national and international dishes, nightclubs, sports fishing facilities - considered one of the strongest attractions of the region - and all the other things required by the most demanding tourists when traveling to a holiday destination of this magnitude.