El Camino Real

El Camino Real is Spanish for "The Royal Road"; sometimes called in English "The King's Highway". This epithet was applied by Spaniards to all roads built by the Spanish government, although Spanish royalty seldom or never traveled on these roads (or even saw them or knew they existed).

Roads

El Camino Real (California), an historical trail that linked California's Spanish missions
- Many streets throughout California today also have the name, paralleling the historic road, including:
  - California State Route 82 in the San Francisco Bay Area
  - San Diego County Route S11 in Northern San Diego County
  - U.S. Route 101 in the California Central Coast
El Camino Real (Cuba), a road through Oriente Province and Santiago de Cuba that connected the coastal city of Siboney to Santiago de Cuba, and which ran through the small village of Las Guasimas running northwest from Siboney
El Camino Real (Florida), a trail the Spanish cleared in the 1680s, mostly over the traditional trails of Native Americans, from St. Augustine westward to the Spanish missions in north Florida
El Camino Real (Mexico), a road through Yucatán and Campeche, that connected the colonial cities of Mérida and Campeche City
El Camino Real (Panama), connecting Panama City and Portobelo, see History of the Panama Canal
El Camino Real de Chiapas, connecting the colonial cities of Chiapa de Corzo, México with Antigua Guatemala, the colonial capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala
El Camino Real de los Tejas, the Spanish mission trail running through Texas and into Louisiana, including part known as Old San Antonio Road
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, an historical road that went from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico
El Camino Real, a boulevard in Boca Raton, Florida
El Camino Real, the Inca road system's backbone, called el Camino Real by the Spanish colonial powers of South America
Caicumeo, a historical road in Chiloé Island, Chile

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

Camino Real (play), a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams

Music

"El Camino Real," a 1964 New Christy Minstrels song by Randy Sparks
"El Camino Real" (music), a concert band piece by Alfred Reed
El Camino Real, an album by William Basinski
El Camino Real, an album by Carmaig de Forest
"Camino Royale", a song by Steve Hackett which first appeared on his 1983 album Highly Strung
El Camino Real (album), an album by Camper Van Beethoven
"El Camino Real" a song by Lee Dresser

Organizations

Camino Real Hotels, a Mexican hotel chain
El Camino Real Charter High School, noted for their Academic Decathlon success
Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real, named for the California road