San Juan Bautista, California

San Benito County

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San Juan Bautista is a municipality in the U.S. state of California. It bears the Spanish name of John the Baptist and is located in San Benito County in the San Juan Valley between the Gabilan Mountains and Flint Hills. According to the census of 2010, the population was 1,862, including 1,248 Mutsun Indians, the Ohlone are counted to the people of Muwekma.

The Spanish Mission San Juan Bautista, California was founded in 1797 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen. She was the 15th of 21 missions on El Camino Real.

On 12 January 2011 against a clock local time, the so-called Cox Sleeper Earthquake earthquake occurred with an epicenter 121 504 in the south of San Juan Bautista at the coordinates 36 774, with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale, followed by numerous aftershocks in the area of ​​the Monterey Peninsula to go up to San Francisco.

The mission was one of the locations in the film Vertigo (1958 ) by Alfred Hitchcock. For the film, a non-existent bell tower was added by trick photography.