El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, or the Royal Road of the Interior, was the most important trading route in the American Southwest for more than 300 years. Don Juan de Onate, the last Spanish conquistador, blazed the road in ...

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, or the Royal Road of the Interior, was the most important trading route in the American Southwest for more than 300 years. Don Juan de Onate, the last Spanish conquistador, blazed the road in ...

El Camino Real

(The King’s Highway)

In this vicinity was the Indian trail which, during the period of Spanish occupation, became known as El Camino Real or King’s Highway. This road, connecting St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida, crossed the Flint River at the ...

Camino Real

For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Onate during his 1598 expedition to ...

The Camino Real

For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Oñate during his 1598 expedition to ...

Camino Real

For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Onate during his 1598 expedition to ...

El Camino Real

(The King's Highway)

The regal highway extending between his Catholic majesty's far flung kingdoms of New Spain, from Mexico City to the Kingdom of New Mexico, passed here. From 1581 onward it was the route followed by conqueror, padre, merchant, adventurer ...

Presidio Wall Camino Real

Near this site was the southwest corner of the adobe wall that surrounded the Spanish Presidio, an enclosure of 11 ¼ acres which included most of the present city – county governmental complex and the Art Museum block. Tucson was ...

Santa Cruz de la Cañada / Santa Cruz Plaza on the Camino Real

(side one)

Santa Cruz de la Cañada

In 1695, Governor Diego de Vargas founded his first town, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, designed to protect the Spanish frontier north of Santa Fe. The church, which still stands, was constructed in the 1730s. ...

Women of the Camino Real

Front of Marker

In 1598 the first Spanish settlers in New Mexico traveled up the Camino Real from north-central Mexico. Of the 560 people so far identified on that expedition, at least 20 percent were women. They came on foot, on ...