biography
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Kino, Eusebio Francisco
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1645–1711)
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| biography:
| Missionary and explorer, born in Segno, Italy. He entered the Jesuit order (1665) and arrived in Mexico City in 1681. He founded missions in present-day Sonora, Mexico, and S Arizona (1687–1711), and established cattle and horse breeding there. His explorations established that Lower California was a peninsula, not an island. |
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