Historical Marker
Camino Real
Historical marker location:
328 S. Nevarez, Socorro, Texas
( at Socorro Mission La Purisima; one block north of Intersection of Navarez and FM 258; Socorro)
Marker installed: 1983
For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Onate during his 1598 expedition to New Mexico, the Camino Real followed the San Elizario, Socorro, and Ysleta Road, crossed the Rio Grande west of present downtown El Paso, and continued north into New Mexico. When the Rio Grande was established as the U.S. - Mexico boundary in 1848, this section of the old Camino Real became part of the United States.
1983.