The El Camino Real International Heritage Center is a center about the culture and history about the El Camino Real trail and the colonization of New Mexico. The center is an official New Mexico State Monument, and features exhibit panels and artifacts about the people who traveled along the trail, the desert and life in the 18th century.
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