San Xavier Mission
The southeast corner of the Avra Valley contains the San Xavier Mission. The mission is located in the western portion of the San Xavier Indian Reservation a subregion, and part of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona which have major lands west of the Baboquivari Mountains and Altar Valley west and southwest.
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Convair 240, stored at Pinal Airpark in Avra Valley
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view westward over southern Avra Valley, Mission San Xavier del Bac
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