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It was called El Camino Real.
The Spanish.
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Spanish customs in The US The gift of pinatas.
Missions are used to convert Native-Americans to Christianity. In the US southwest, Spanish missions were usually devoted to converting Native Americans to Catholicism.
It is true there were several Spanish colonial settlements in what is now the southeast and southwest US. The Spanish Missions in America were suppose to convert the indigenous people to Catholicism.
By war, as it happened.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado