San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia

Geography
As its name suggests, the principal thoroughfare of the Inner Mission of the Mission
District of San Francisco is Mission Street. Its borders are U.S. Route 101 to the east
which forms the boundary between the Inner Mission and its eastern neighbor, Potrero
Hill, while Valencia Street separates the neigborhoods from Mission Dolores, Eureka
Valley "The Castro" and Noe Valley to the west. Cesar Chavez Street (formerly Army
Street) is the south border which lies next to Bernal Heights and roughly by Duboce
Street is the north boundary neighboring South of Market.
Also along Mission Street, further south-central is the Excelsior and Crocker-Amazon
neigbohoods often referred to as the "Outer Mission".
As of 2006, the Inner Mission is part of San Francisco's District 9.
Climate
The microclimates of San Francisco create a system by which each neighborhood has
radically different weather at any given time. The Mission's geographical location
insulates it from the fog and wind from the west. As a result, the Mission has a tendency
to be warmer and sunnier than the rest of the city, earning it the nickname "Banana Belt".
This climatic phenomenon becomes apparent to visitors who walk down 24th Street from
Noe Valley towards Mission Street.
History
The large Latino population in the Mission District can be seen highlighted in this
thematic map of San Francisco
The Ohlone Indians inhabited the region of what is now the Mission District for over
2,000 years. Spanish missionaries arrived in the area during the late 18th century. They
found the Ohlone living peacefully in a village at the edge of a lagoon, hunting and
gathering. In this location, the Spanish founded a Mission, Mission San Francisco de
Asis, in June, 1776. This period marked the beginning of the end of the Ohlone culture.
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians observe that the Franciscan friars used
Ohlone slave labor to complete the Mission building in 1790.