USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -El Camino Real de los Tejas stretches 2, 500 miles from colonial Mexico City through Texas and ends in Natchitoches, Louisiana. This trail provided the only primary overland route from Mexico across the Río Grande to the Red River Valley.

Detailed explanation-2: -El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Spanish for “The Royal Road of the Interior Land") was a 1, 600 mile (2560 kilometer) long trade route between Mexico City and San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, from 1598 to 1882.

Detailed explanation-3: -With the establishment of a strict trade monopoly by Spain, the pueblo Indian trail was usurped as El Camino Real, the main route for the importation and integration of Spanish goods and lifeways into the local landscape. The road’s initial purpose was to supply the Spanish military and support the missionary effort.

Detailed explanation-4: -The route through San Mateo and Santa Clara counties is designated as State Route 82, and some stretches of it are named El Camino Real.

Detailed explanation-5: -El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro began in Mexico City. As the “Royal Road of the Interior Lands, ” the frontier wagon road brought Spanish colonists into today’s New Mexico. Once travelers crossed the arid lands above Ciudad Chihuahua, they followed the wide Rio Grande Valley north into New Mexico.