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El Camino Real is the road that runs through all of the missions. It took one day to walk from mission to mission.

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Technically, the “Royal Highway” a term used to designate the main road in a Spanish territory. In Alta California, El Camino Real was a dirt road that linked the missions and extended from San Diego to Sonoma. U.S. 101 roughly parallels El Camino Real.

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Spanish for "the King's Highway", the name of the road that connected the California mission chain

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the "Royal Road" or "King's Highway" was the first road constructed after the arrival of the Spanish in the 1600's along the Rio Grande from northern Mexico to Santa Fe

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El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road, also known as The King's Highway) usually refers to the 600-mile (966-kilometer) California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions (along with a number of support sites), 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de AlcalÃ¡ in San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.

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'El Camino Real is a work for concert band by the American composer Alfred Reed.

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