El Camino Real Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
historic commemorative route in California
About El Camino Real
This article covers only the northern half of the total length of California's Camino Real. The complete route begins in the town ofLoretoinBaja California Surat the Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, the first of the California missions built by the Franciscan friars. The route continued north for 1007 km where the midway point on the route was the Mision San Diego de Alcata inMexicali, the Camino Real then jogged west to pick up the route described in this article. El Camino Real and the missions,pueblos(villages), andpresidios(forts) along it, were established by the Franciscan friars to ensure safe passage through California during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but also to convert the various Native American tribes to Catholicism and to solidify the Spanish claim to t
El Camino Real Travel Guide Sections
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