Ki·no  (kē'nō)  Italian-born Jesuit missionary who explored and mapped much of the American Southwest and Mexico. |
Kino, Eusebio Francisco
Jesuit missionary, cartographer, rancher, and explorer in Spanish service, founder of numerous missions in the Pimeria Alta region, now divided between the Mexican state of Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona.
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