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The San Carlos Borroméo del Rio Carmelo Mission was founded at its present site in 1771 by Father Junipero Serra and was once the headquarters for the entire California mission system…

Overlooking the Carmel River estuary to the south, the verdant escarpment of the Santa Lucias to the east, and the surf-splashed craigs of Point Lobos to the west, the Carmel Mission complex occupies a magnificent site on the central California coast…