What 2 cities did El Camino Real connect in NM?

Historically, a Camino Real (Royal Road) is defined as a road that connects Spanish capital and Spanish capital, a distinction not shared with ordinary Spanish villages or Indian pueblos. For a short period of time, the trail connected Mexico City to San Juan Pueblo (1598-1600) and San Gabriel (1600-1609).



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El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was blazed atop a network of footpaths that connected Mexico's ancient cultures with the equally ancient cultures of the interior West. Starting in Mexico City, the frontier wagon road brought settlers into today's New Mexico.

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The original route begins in Baja California Sur, Mexico, at the site of Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, present day Loreto, (the first mission successfully established in Las Californias). The Portolá expedition of 1769 included Franciscan missionaries, led by Junípero Serra.

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Camino is a Spanish word, meaning “path,” “trail,” or, more generally “way.”

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El Camino Real commemorates three centuries of trade and commerce that linked New Mexico, Spain, and Mexico. Later traders who came west in 1821 on the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico, also used Camino Real to expand U.S. trade into Chihuahua and Mexico City.

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The El Camino Real has many names, most common are “The Royal Road” and “The King's Highway.” The El Camino Real is widely known today as a 600-mile (965-kilometer) road which is spans from the area in San Diego near the Mission San Diego del Alcalá to the Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma.

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Some of the California State designated El Camino Real consists of highways or other restricted-access roads, and cannot be walked. The California Mission Walkers have established a route consisting of a network of trails and roads that follow closely along the original historic Camino.

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El Camino Real Bell installed at original site of Mission San Gabriel in Montebello. Los Angeles Almanac Photo. Today, there are reported to be 585 bells in place marking the old highway and its branches. Bells range between San Diego County in the south to Sonoma County in the north.

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