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The Juan Bautista de Anza expedition of (1775–76) entered Alta California from the southeast (crossing the Colorado River near today's Yuma, Arizona), and picked up Portolá's trail at Mission San Gabriel. Carmel became Serra's Alta California mission headquarters. Portolá journeyed again from San Diego to Monterey in 1770, where Junipero Serra (who traveled by ship) founded the second mission (later moved a short distance south to Carmel). On the return trip to San Diego, Gaspar de Portolá found a shorter detour around one stretch of coastal cliffs via Conejo Valley. Crespí identified several future mission sites which were not developed until later. Proceeding north, Portolá followed the coastline (today's California State Route 1), except where forced inland by coastal cliffs.Įventually, the expedition was prevented from going farther north by the entrance to San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate. Serra stayed at San Diego and Juan Crespí continued the rest of the way with Gaspar de Portolá. Starting from Loreto, Serra established the first of the 21 missions at San Diego. The Portolá expedition of 1769 included Franciscan missionaries, led by Junípero Serra.
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The original route begins in Baja California Sur, Mexico, at the site of Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, present day Loreto, (the first mission successfully established in Las Californias). Most caminos reales had names apart from the appended camino real. Examples of such roads ran between principal settlements throughout Spain and its colonies such as New Spain. In earlier Spanish colonial times, any road under the direct jurisdiction of the Spanish crown and its viceroys was considered to be a camino real.
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