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LA PALMA MISSION
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town of San Miguel Tampachi was founded in the highlands of the “Sierra
Madre”, competing with the great heights of Gilital, in a place
that was too rough and wild, composed of cliffs, rocky out croppings
and precipices. One hundred and sixty Indian families, consisting
of 355 persons, lived there.
The missionaries also visited another town called San Pedro de Tamsoblob,
wich held 60 Indian families, comprised of 131 members. Thus the
mission administered 220 families, or 486 people, in all, according
to the 1777 census, which failed to record children under 10 year
of age.
The town and mission was 16 leagues “Southwest” of Villa
de Valles. Up to 1760 they were visited by members of the Aquichmon
Mission.
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