El Camino Real

El Camino Real (The Royal Road), sometimes translated in English as The King's Highway, is an epithet applied to roads built by Spain during colonial times.

Roads

El Camino Real (California), a historical trail that linked California's Spanish missions from San Diego in the south to Sonoma, north of San Francisco, in the north.
- Many streets throughout California today also have the name, paralleling the historic road, including:
  - California State Route 82 in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern San Mateo County.
  - U.S. Route 101 in the California Central Coast.
El Camino Real (Cuba), a road through Oriente Province and Santiago de Cuba that connected the coastal city of Siboney to Santiago de Cuba, and which ran through the small village of Las Guásimas running northwest from Siboney.
El Camino Real (Florida), a trail the Spanish cleared in the 1680s, mostly over the traditional trails of Native Americans, from St. Augustine westward to the Spanish missions in north Florida
El Camino Real (Mexico), a road through Yucatán and Campeche, that connected the colonial cities of Mérida and Campeche City
El Camino Real (Panama), connecting Panama City and Portobelo; see History of the Panama Canal
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 de los Tejas, the Spanish mission trail running through Texas and into Louisiana, including part known as Old San Antonio Road
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, an historical road that went from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico
Camino Real, a boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida, planned by Addison Mizner to be the city's main street.
El Camino Real (Sinaloa and Sonora), an historical road that connected Spanish and later Mexican settlements in Sinaloa and Sonora as far as the Missions in southern Arizona.
El Camino Real, the Inca road system's backbone, called el Camino Real by the Spanish colonial powers of South America
Caicumeo, a historical road in Chiloé Island, Chile
U.S. Route 61 follows much of the old El Camino Real in Missouri, a Spanish colonial road constructed in 1779 that originally connected St. Louis to St. Genevieve before being extended north to St. Charles and south to New Madrid.

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

Camino Real, a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams

Music

"El Camino Real," a 1964 New Christy Minstrels song by Randy Sparks
"El Camino Real," a concert band piece by Alfred Reed
El Camino Real, an album by William Basinski
El Camino Real, an album by Carmaig de Forest
"Camino Royale", a song by Steve Hackett which first appeared on his 1983 album Highly Strung
El Camino Real, an album by Camper Van Beethoven

El Camino Real

Roads

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

Music

Organizations

See also