Wegi Vav

Wegi Vav, or “Red Outcrop,” is an O’odham name for the place later known as Magdalena, in the river valleys of northern Sonora. O’odham villages occupied this country before Jesuit missionaries arrived. Eusebio Kino visited the area in the late seventeenth century, and Santa María Magdalena became a visita, a mission settlement served from nearby San Ignacio. The river valley connected a chain of communities across the dry northern frontier of New Spain.