The small town San Ignacio in Baja California Sur, Mexico turned out to be a success in the missionary efforts initiated by the Jesuits. This place had a great location with almost unlimited water resources. Over the years, a village of the same name was built around Mission San Ignacio. Before the arrival of the missionaries in 1728, this was simply a desert oasis known among the local Cochimí Indians as Kadakaamán or stream of reeds.
Decimated by hard work, epidemics and diseases of the Old World, the indigenous population declined rapidly and by 1840 completely disappeared from the face of the earth. In just over 100 years, Misión San Ignacio Kadakaamán lost its primary objective, and the missionaries have left the site. The Dominicans who came after the Jesuits completed the present church building. Today it is the parish church. The temple has a Latin cross plan, and is roofed with vaults and dome. The Gilded wooden altar was brought from Mexico City in the end of the 18th century.
