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El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
The Spanish missions in California — originally built between 1769 and 1833, with their sites & restored structures in present-day California.Founded in the Spanish colonial Las Californias (1768–1804) and Alta California (1804–1822) provinces, and the Mexican Alta California territory (1822–1848).
Emblem of the U.S. Life-Saving Service. In 1878, Congress authorized the United States Life-Saving Service although stations were to be built only where navigation conditions were extremely hazardous. [2] [5] The Humboldt Bay station was the second to be built in California after that in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Route 82 at the intersection with Mathilda Avenue (Sunnyvale) Historic El Camino Real marker in Santa Clara At its south end SR 82 starts as The Alameda at I-880 in San Jose. [ 3 ] Once it enters Santa Clara , it bends north-east around Santa Clara University and onto El Camino Real , where it continues for the remainder of its trip up the San ...
Fort Lauderdale (/ ˈ l ɔː d ər d eɪ l / LAW-dər-dayl) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles (48 km) north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean.It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, [7] making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida.
El Camino Real (California), commemorative route in the U.S. state of California from San Diego to Sonoma California State Route 82, highway named El Camino Real that follows portions of the historic route; El Camino Real (Florida), a historic trail from St. Augustine westward to the Spanish missions in north Florida
Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Agnes of Rome.Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding ...
A plaque showing the locations of a third of the missions between 1565 and 1763. Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established missions in Spanish Florida (La Florida) in order to convert the indigenous tribes to Roman Catholicism, to facilitate control of the area, and to obstruct regional colonization by Protestants, particularly, those from England and ...