• Sunlight illuminates the top of historic Mission San José de Tumacácori church.

    Tumacácori

    National Historical Park Arizona

San Mateo Ranch

Established about 1730 by Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, the San Mateo Ranch was located where the Río Rico golf course is today, near the Calabazas Mission.

Did You Know?

Mountains above Rancho Arizona

Arizona takes its name from a ranch of the same name, meaning "the good oak tree" in Basque, established by Bernardo de Urrea in 1735 in the rugged, mountain country about forty miles southwest of Tumacácori.