El Camino Real De Los Tejas National Historic Trail

National Park Service, Texas.

Explore a diverse array of histories contained within El Camino Real de los Tejas’ 150-year life, including the Spanish struggle to missionize American Indian nations, the growth of cattle ranching in the Mexican period, and the movement for Texan independence and statehood.

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You can visit many sites of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail over the 2,580-mile historic route that crosses 2 states, and travels into Mexico, to Mexico City.

Additional Information

  • El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Official Website
  • El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Map

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  • Mission San Bernardo ruins, Guerrero, Coahuila, MexicoConstruction of the mission church began in 1760 but was never completed. The outstanding ruins are virtually the only visible remains of the complex of missions established in the area. The purpose was to convert Coahuiltecan Indians to Catholicism.
  • El Paso de Jacinto/Paso de los Indios, Webb County, TexasAround 1746, explorer Jacinto de Leуn discovered a ford that allowed safe passage across the Rнo Grande in this vicinity; it had probably been used for centuries by American Indians.
  • Rancho los Ojuelos, Webb County, TexasThis national historic district consists of 13 stone houses (several in ruins) constructed from hewn sandstone blocks, chinked and plastered, ranging from rectangular flat roofed Colonial style buildings to hip roofed two room structures. Post-1750s.
  • McKinney Falls State Park, Travis County, TexasRecent research reveals that in 1716 the expedition of Domingo Ramуn followed the left bank of Onion Creek along the western edge of McKinney Falls State Park to its junction with Williamson Creek. You can walk in rock indentations in the creek bed.
  • Mission Tejas State Park, Houston County, TexasThis 1.5-mile-long trail segment crosses an area that has remarkable visual integrity. The trail segment courses parallel to State Road 21 and at times crosses the highway.

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