El Camino Real

El Camino Real (Spanish for "The Royal Road", and often called "The King's Highway" in English)

El Camino Real may refer to:

Roads

• El Camino Real (California), historic trail that linked California's Spanish missions
  • Many streets throughout California today also have the name, paralleling the historic road, including:
    • U.S. Route 101 in the California Central Coast
    • California State Route 82 in the San Francisco Bay Area

• El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, an historic road that went from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• El Camino Real de los Tejas, the Spanish mission trail running through Texas and into Louisiana, including part known as Old San Antonio Road.
• El Camino Real (Mexico), in Yucatán and Campeche, that connected the colonial cities of Mérida and Campeche City
• El Camino Real de Chiapas, connecting the colonial cities of Chiapa de Corzo, México with Antigua Guatemala, the colonial capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala
• El Camino Real (Panama), connecting Panama City and Portobelo, see History of the Panama Canal
• El Camino Real, a boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida
• The Inca road system's backbone, called el Camino Real by the Spanish colonial powers of South America

Entertainment

• Camino Real (play), a play by Tennessee Williams
• "El Camino Real" (music), a concert band piece by Alfred Reed
• El Camino Real (album), an album by Carmaig de Forest.
• El Camino Real is an album by William Basinski
• "Camino Royale", a song by Steve Hackett which first appeared on his 1983 album Highly Strung

Organizations

• Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real, named for the California road
• El Camino Real High School, noted for their Academic Decathlon success
• Camino Real Hotels, a Mexican hotel chain

See also

• King's Highway (disambiguation)
• Via Regia, historic road
• Royal Road, Persia