Hispanic Heritage Site - National Park Units

National Park Units

• Christiansted National Historic Site (Christiansted, United States Virgin Islands)
  • On Saint Croix, is the only site under United States jurisdiction to have been visited by Christopher Columbus.
• Cabrillo National Monument (San Diego, California)
  • Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer who claimed the West Coast of the United States for Spain in 1542, is memorialized here.
• Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (St. Augustine, Florida)
  • Construction on the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States was started in 1672 by the Spanish to protect St. Augustine. St. Augustine is the first permanent continually-occupied settlement in the continental United States.
• Chamizal National Memorial (El Paso, Texas)
  • The peaceful settlement of the 99-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico is memorialized here. International artists present cultural exchange programs in drama, dance, and music.
• Coronado National Memorial (Hereford, Arizona)
  • The first European exploration of the Southwest is commemorated here at the spot whether the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540 entered what is now the United States.
• De Soto National Memorial (Bradenton, Florida)
  • The landing of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1539 and the first extensive exploration of the southern United States by Europeans are commemorated.
• Dry Tortugas National Park
• El Morro National Monument (Ramah, New Mexico)
  • "Inscription Rock" is a soft sandstone monolith on which are carved hundreds of inscriptions. Included are inscriptions of the Spanish explorers and settlers of the American Southwest.
• Fort Matanzas National Monument (St. Augustine, Florida)
  • This Spanish fort was built (1740–1742) to warn St. Augustine of British or other enemy approach from the south.
• Gulf Islands National Seashore Bateria de San Antonio (Gulf Breeze, Florida)
  • Offshore islands have sparkling sand beaches, historic forts, and nature trails.
• Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
• Padre Island National Seashore
• Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
• Pecos National Historical Park
• Presidio of San Francisco
• Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (Mountainair, New Mexico)
  • This park preserves and interprets the best remaining examples of 17th-century Spanish Franciscan mission churches and coventos remaining in the United States.
• Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
• San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (San Antonio, Texas)
  • Four Spanish frontier missions, part of a colonization system that stretched across the Spanish Southwest in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries are commemorated here.
• San Juan National Historic Site (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  • These masonry fortifications, oldest in the territorial limits of the United States, were begun by the Spaniards in the 16th century to protect a strategic harbor guarding the sea lanes to the new world.
• Tumacácori National Historical Park (Tumacacori, Arizona)
  • This historic Spanish Catholic mission building stands near the site first visited by Jesuit Father Kino in 1691.