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El Camino Real and the Spanish Road Network History
Albert C. Rose outlines the Los Caminos Reales system from Mexico City northward to Florida, detailing early routes, key junctions, and the role of Spanish settlements, with notes on maps secrecy and rival powers shaping exploration and defense. The piece traces primary north roads from Mexico City to Santa Fe and beyond, linking to major ports and frontier posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
New Spain
New World
Los Caminos
Los Caminos Reales
Hernando Cortes
Vera Cruz
Montezuma
Central America
Gulf of Mexico
St. Augustine
Florida
Queretaro
Zacatacas
Durango
Chihuahua
Rio Grande River
el Paso del Norte
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Atlantic
Virginia
Dolores Fridalgo
Saltillo
Presidio del Norte
Paso de Francia
Cotulld
San Antonio
Nacogdoches
Natchitoches
Natchez
New Orleans
Mobile
Pensacola
Tallahassee
Pedro Menendez de Aviles
Santa Cruz
Sinaloa
Arispe
Nogales
Gila
Yuma
Colorado River
Desert
San Diego
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles
San Luis Obispo
Sonoma
San Francisco
France
England
Russia
Acapulco
Guatemala
San Salvador
Seville
Spain
Atlantic Ocean
Tierra Firme
Cartagena
South America
Antilles
West Indies
Hispaniola
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Caribbean Sea
Brazil
America
Reliabe
Mexico
Texas
Arizona
Calfornia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Union
United States
Mississippi Valley
Fort Rosalie
Mississippi River
Biloxi
Tombigbee
Constantinople
Europe
Far East
Nicholas V
Indies
Africa
Bartholomeu Diaz
Cape of Good Hope
Ferdinand and Isabella
Christopher Columbus
Palos
Andalusia
Guanahani
Watling Island
Bahamas
Cuba
Espanola
Alexander VI
Portugal
Azores
Greenwich
Amazon River
Vasco de Gama
Calicut
India
Juan Ponce de Leon
Vasco Nunez Balboa
Darien
Panama
Havana
Santiago
Pedrmias
Panama City
Isthmus
Magellan
Philippine Islands
Philip II of Spain
Panfilo de Narvaez
Tampa Bay
Cebeza de Vaca
Francisco Pizarro
Peru
Atahualpa
Cortes
Pacific Coast
Lower
California
Cabeza de Vaca
Culiacan
Viceroy Mendoza
Hernando de Soto
Alachua
Maldonado
Pensacola Bay
de Soto
Francisco Vasiluez de Coronado
Compostela
Cibola
Kansas
Tristan de Luna
Santa Maria
North America
John Hawkins
Juan de Onate
Apalachee
Jamaica
Oliver Cromwell
Henry Morgan
Louis Joliet
Frontenac
New France
Arkansas River
Jacques Marquette
Robert Cavelier
Sieur de la Salle
Misissippi River
Louis XIV of France
River of Palms
Sarasota Bay
la Salle
Matagorda Bay
Brazos River
el Caminé Real
Alonzo de Leon
la Salie
Tejas