El Camino Real – The King’s Highway

Historical marker location:

I-10, Anthony vicinity, New Mexico

( northbound rest area just north of Texas border at Anthony.)

Juan de Oñate, first governor of New Mexico, passed near here with his colonizing expedition in May 1598. Traveling north, he designated official campsites (called parajes) on the Camino Real used by expeditions that followed. In Oñate’s caravan were 129 men, many with their families and servants.