Camino Real

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Several miles of the path of the original Camino Real pass through Calvert, Texas. 

"El Camino Real is Texas’ own Route 66; it’s the mother highway that carried travelers from Mexico to Louisiana long before concrete strips or railroad ties crisscrossed the state. As with that famed route, some communities along the way morphed into population centers we inhabit today, filled with varying cultures from those who traversed this camino, or road. Some communities just vanished, abandoned when railroads chose different courses."  Courtesy of  Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine