Tumacácori National Historical Park
The adobe ruins of a Spanish colonial mission church begun in 1800, at a site where Jesuit missionaries first arrived in 1691. It recorded 35,256 recreation visits in 2024.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- National Historic Site
- Destination
- Tubac
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- International Dark Sky Park
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 35,256 (2024)
- What is counted
- recreation visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 37.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- 19.2
- Popularity score
- 24.8
- Significance score
- 75.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- nps.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.5681, -111.0510
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Tumacácori National Historical Park is a national historic site near Tubac, in Santa Cruz County. It is one of the national historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 37.3 out of 100, at high confidence. The score combines its published visitor count with public interest and tourism significance. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: The 2025 series reports zero recreation visits for month 10, a reporting gap rather than a measured figure, so 2024 is used as the reference year.
Sources
- Visitation: National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.nps.gov/tuma/index.htm(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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