sentences:  The first explorations of the region were realized by the Jesuit order during the evangelization era of the neo-Hispanic territories of California.The regions of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir are thought to have been explored by father Eusebio Francisco Kino and father Wenceslao Link in 1701.Later the Dominicans continuing the evangelization movement built the Misión de San Pedro Mártir de Verona in the southern part of the park, but only ruins are left of the site.