El Camino Real
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El Camino Real

The name may mean:

Roads

  • El Camino Real (California)
    El Camino Real (California)
    El Camino Real and sometimes associated with Calle Real usually refers to the 600-mile California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions , 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego...

    , also known as the California Mission Trail, linked California's Spanish missions, sub-missions (asistencias), stations (estancias), towns (pueblos), and forts (presidios)and El Camino went from east texas to Mexico City
  • 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
  • El Camino Real, a boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida
    Boca Raton, Florida
    Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...

  • The Inca road system
    Inca road system
    The Inca road system was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. The network was based on two north-south roads with numerous branches. The best known portion of the road system is the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu...

    's backbone, called el Camino Real by the Spanish colonial powers of South America

Entertainment

  • Camino Real (play)
    Camino Real (play)
    Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the play, Williams directs the reader to use the Anglicized pronunciation "Cá-mino Réal." The play takes its title from its setting, alluded to El Camino Real, a dead-end place in a Spanish-speaking town...

    , a play by Tennessee Williams
  • "El Camino Real" (music)
    El Camino Real (music)
    El Camino Real is a work for concert band by the American composer Alfred Reed.The following are the program notes that Alfred Reed wrote to accompany his composition:...

    , a concert band piece by Alfred Reed
  • El Camino Real (album), an album by Carmaig de Forest
    Carmaig de Forest
    Carmaig de Forest is a singer-songwriter, mainly on the ukulele, but also the guitar, originating from Los Angeles, California. Since starting his career as a ukulele singer-songwriter, he has mostly stayed in the creative musical underground of California and Baltimore, at one time touring with...

    .
  • El Camino Real is an album by William Basinski
    William Basinski
    William Basinski is a United States avant-garde composer of ambient music via tape music and process music. Basinski is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist...

  • "Camino Royale", a song by Steve Hackett
    Steve Hackett
    Stephen Richard Hackett is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970 and left in 1977 to pursue a solo career...

     which first appeared on his 1983 album Highly Strung

Organizations

  • Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real
    Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real
    The Diocese of El Camino Real is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, located in northern and central California. The diocese includes the cities of San Jose , Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo...

    , named for the California road
  • El Camino Real High School
    El Camino Real High School
    El Camino Real Charter High School is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California...

    , noted for their Academic Decathlon success
  • Camino Real Hotels
    Camino Real Hotels
    Camino Real Hotels is a Mexican-based hotel chain consisting of hotels and resorts.-History:Camino Real was the name given by 16th century Spaniards to the road that led to the capital of New Spain, today known as Mexico....

    , a Mexican hotel chain
  • El Camino Real meditación, a Spanish meditation organization,
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