El Camino Real (California)
El Camino Real (Spanish for Royal Road or royal path ) of the 970 km long historic trail is called, connected the Spanish missions in California together.
Today, as the located in the U.S. state of California portion of the path between missions Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego and Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma is so named mainly. In fact, the way originally started on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico today ( at the Misión San Bruno in San Bruno )
At present, its longest stretch of road linking 21 mission stations, three settlements ( pueblos ) and four garrisons ( presidios ) together.
History
Between 1683 and 1834 Spanish missionaries founded a number of religious bases along the coast of present-day California, getting each a day's ride (ie approximately 50 km) apart. ( See also Main article: Spanish missions). There was a custom of the Padres to distribute mustard seeds in their rides, so that the path of yellow flowering mustard plants was lined.
List of missions and founding years
The track today
The following roads that roughly follow the path of the historic route, which form the current " El Camino Real"
- Interstate 5, from the Mexican border to Anaheim
- Anaheim Boulevard, Harbor Boulevard, California State Route 72 and Whittier Boulevard, Anaheim to Los Angeles
- U.S. Highway 101 from Los Angeles to San Jose
- California State Route 82, from San Jose to San Francisco
- Interstate 280 in San Francisco
- U.S. Route 101, from San Francisco to Novato
- California State Route 37, from Novato to Sears Point
- California State Route 121, from Sears Point to Sonoma
- California State Route 12 in Sonoma