the Santa Barbara Mission is the tenth mission on the mission chain.
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Mission Santa Clara is the eighth mission in the mission chain
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santa barbara california. location is important because it is a chain of 12 spanish catholic missions that are within a day's walk from each other so travelers had a place to stay
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Mission San Luis Rey is the 18th mission in the Mission chain
California missions were founded a distance of a days ride apart and Santa Barbara was founded Dec.4, 1786 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuer. The mission was one of the most productive in the system and was (still is) the mission record depository in the chain.
Santa Clara de Asis is the eighth mission in California's chain of 21 Spanish missions established by the Franciscan order between 1769 and 1833.
The mission in the chain of missions built in Carmel is the San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo mission
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Because people would have gotten all confused if they'd put it in Santa Barbara. Anyway, the question has it exactly backwards. The Spanish missionaries were setting up a chain of missions a day's travel apart (along, or at least close to, what is today the route of El Camino Real). They didn't put the Santa Clara mission in Santa Clara... they put the Santa Clara mission near an existing native American settlement, and the city grew up around it and took its name from the mission.
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