San Ignacio

With Ecoturismo Kuyimá you will get to know the history and the surroundings of San Ignacio. We offer a great deal of choices so you may enjoy great adventures horseback, mountain bike or hiking adventures. Kayak across the pond, swim in the waterspring, visit a fossil area, do bird watching, enjoy the wildlife in general, or visit caves with petroglyphs.

Great and new emotions await you in San Ignacio!

Lodging

To help you in planning your trip, below is a list of hotels in the town, with their location, telephone number, and rates in dollars (subject to change...contact the hotel for current rates). To call from within Mexico, the prefix is just 01; from outside Mexico you must dial 52 (Mexico's country code) after your exit country code and the desired number (from the United States, for instance, you must dial 011-52, and then the desired number)

Hotel Baja Oasis

Transpeninsular Highway (Mex-1), 74th km
500 meters from the junction leading to San Ignacio
$25/double and $20/single occupancy room
Tel (615) 154-0078
Tel (615) 154-0111

Hotel La Pinta San Ignacio

On the road to San Ignacio, 1.5 km after yielding from Highway 1. On the left side of the road, 500 m. before downtown.
$85/ double occupancy room
Tel (615) 154-0300. E-mail.
Toll-free in USA & Canada: 1-800-800-9632

Hotel La Posada

Domicilio Conocido (just ask). Within walking distance from the Plaza
$25/ room with two single beds
Tel (615) 154-0343, (615)154-0100

Casa Lerée

Traditional guest house, half block from the plaza
$35-65/ double-triple accommodation
Tel (615) 154-0158. E-mail.

Posada Chalita

In front of the Plaza and by the Mission, rooms in the patio of a house which has a small restaurant.
$20
Tel (615) 154-0082

Hotel Ricardo's

Barrio San Lino exit
$45/double and $30/single occupancy room
Tel (615) 154-0283

History of San Ignacio

Kadakamaan was the name that the Cochimí natives gave this Oasis. Jesuit missionaries discovered it in 1706, and in 1728 Father Juan Luyando Bautista initiated the construction of the Mission of San Ignacio de Loyola. The work was continued by Father Fernando Consag and finished by the Dominican Father Juan Crisóstomo Gómez.

The cultivation of numerous types of plants and trees, facilitated by the abundance of water and fertile land, became the support of the region. Although reduced, this activity is still practiced today.

At present San Ignacio is filled with thousands of date palm trees which surround the oasis and the town, and the system of drains that the Jesuit missionaries designed to distribute the water, still works.

In San Ignacio there is a great pond, formed by the river that takes the same name, and that gives life to the region.

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