Bill Text: TX HR2192 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing the cultural and historical significance of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-30 - Reported enrolled [HR2192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2192-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing the cultural and historical significance of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-30 - Reported enrolled [HR2192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2192-Introduced.html
88R30902 BK-D | ||
By: González of El Paso | H.R. No. 2192 |
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WHEREAS, For more than 300 years, the Camino Real de Tierra | ||
Adentro played a vital role in the history, economy, and culture of | ||
Mexico and the American Southwest; and | ||
WHEREAS, Centuries before Europeans came to North America, | ||
Native Americans maintained extensive trade routes between groups | ||
in what is now Texas and New Mexico and civilizations further south; | ||
when the first Spanish explorers arrived in the region in the early | ||
16th century, native peoples often guided them through this | ||
striking landscape along these traditional footpaths; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate and his party crossed the | ||
Rio Grande near present-day El Paso and established a colony in New | ||
Mexico; for the next three centuries, what came to be known as the | ||
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, or the Royal Road of the Interior, | ||
functioned as the principal conduit of commerce, agriculture, | ||
technology, languages, and religion between central Mexico and the | ||
American Southwest, running 1,600 miles from Mexico City at its | ||
southern end to San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico in the north; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 2010, UNESCO added the portion of the Camino Real | ||
that lies in Mexico to its prestigious World Heritage List; the | ||
designation highlighted five of the route's existing urban World | ||
Heritage sites that exemplify its cultural, commercial, religious, | ||
and geographical significance, as well as 55 historic sites, | ||
including bridges, chapels, former haciendas and convents, and | ||
other natural and manmade features, related to the use of the road; | ||
the American section of the Camino Real, which passes through El | ||
Paso, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe, was designated as a National | ||
Historic Trail by an act of Congress in 2000; and | ||
WHEREAS, Recognized by UNESCO for its "outstanding universal | ||
value," the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro represents the rich | ||
heritage of hundreds of years of human interchange between the | ||
cultures of Europe and the New World, and it serves as a vital and | ||
tangible reminder of the inextricable links between two great | ||
nations; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby recognize the cultural and historical | ||
significance of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and commend all | ||
those involved in efforts to raise awareness of and preserve the | ||
legacy of this extraordinary international landmark. |