Discover the rich history of hardships, conquests, and enchanting tales of this historic trail. Bureau of land management, new mexico state office collection blmlibrary. The inscribed property consists of 55 sites and five existing world heritage sites lying along a 1400 km section of this 2600. This spanish colonial royal road in new mexico and texas originally extended to mexico city, mexico. Camino real project, roads, roads, roads, chihuahua trail publisher santa fe, n. However, the trail was extended south from the paraje river crossing in the 1850s to connect the towns to the trail.
The series of nominated properties lies within ten mexican states. Royal road of the interior land was an historic 2,560kilometrelong 1,590 mi trade route between mexico city and san juan pueblo ohkay owingeh, new mexico, usa, from 1598 to 1882. Stretch of the camino real between aculco and san juan del rio mexico n19 59 12 w99 26 40 7. There are menu options at the top right and top left of the map viewer.
Tying spains colonial capital at mexico city to its northern frontier in distant new mexico, the route spans three centuries, two countries, and 1,600 miles. If you are using internet explorer or netscape to view these pdf files. Ruta del camino real tierra adentro viajemos por mexico. From there, the trail continued roughly 1,000 miles south to mexico city. Cartas quarterly journal is now digital, view chronicles of the trail online free with back issues from 2007, also seeking qualified camino real writers. Complementary document of the technical file for inscription of the. This emigrant trail brought thousands of spanish and mexican colonists to. Starting in mexico city, the frontier wagon road brought settlers into todays new mexico. If you have a slow internet connection, it may take a few minutes to access the files. Linking spains colonial capital at mexico city to its northern frontier in distant new mexico, the route spans three centuries, two countries, and 1,600 miles. New mexico bureau of geology and mineral resources a division of new mexico institute of mining and technology. The size of each town varied over the years from 100 people to several hundred. The top right menu allows you to look at the trail overlaid on street, topographic, or imagery maps.
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