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camino real

American  
[kah-mee-naw re-ahl] / kɑˈmi nɔ rɛˈɑl /

noun

Spanish.
caminos reales plural
  1. a main road; highway.


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Etymology

Origin of camino real

Literally, “royal road”

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But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next day we followed for some time the camino real, which leads from Acaponeta to the towns of Mezquital and Durango.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl

For a league we followed the camino real, at which distance we saw a little opening on the left, where one of our Indians was waiting for us.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.

For several miles our route coincided with that of the camino real to San Miguel, and we rode along it gayly, in high and hopeful spirits.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various

The ruins are nine leagues from Valladolid, the camino real to which passes directly through the field.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.

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