Haro Cape

Cape Haro projects into the Gulf of California on the Sonoran coast, near the entrance to Guaymas Bay. The bay was home to Indigenous Guaymas, Seri and Yaqui communities before Spanish ships reached it in the sixteenth century. Jesuits later established a mission at San José de Guaymas, but resistance and conflict repeatedly interrupted their work. The mission was finally abandoned in 1759. Guaymas developed as a port only gradually, with commercial maritime traffic authorized in 1811.