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 ...

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 ...

The San Andreas Fault Exhibit & El Camino Real Earthquake Walk

In Celebration of the

U.S.Geological Survey's Centennial

1879 - 1979

Dedicated July 4, 1979

by

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

In Cooperation With

Old Mission San Juan Bautista-Diocese of Monterey,

U.S.Geological Survey-Department of the Interior,

California State Historical Park-San ...