Ñakipa

The Ñakipá inhabited the country between the Camalú and San Quintín valleys and the Pacific coast of northern Baja California. Their language is associated with the Yuman-speaking peoples of the peninsula, including their Kiliwa neighbours. The coast, valleys and mountains offered different resources across a dry landscape. Dominican missionaries entered the northern peninsula in the late eighteenth century, establishing missions among Indigenous communities whose territories had long preceded Spanish settlement.