Baborigame

Baborigame lies in the mountainous country of the northern Tepehuan, or Ódami, in the Sierra Madre Occidental. Its valleys and difficult mountain paths connect the upper country of Chihuahua with the western slopes toward Sinaloa. In 1708 the Jesuit Tomás de Guadalajara established the mission of San Francisco Javier de Baborigame to convert the Tepehuan communities of the region. Religious images and practices subsequently became part of the community’s history.