Try your U.S. History text book. If I recall correctly it was the name given to a road/trail in California when it was under Spanish rule.

Mark in AK

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From: d spence <dspence@OANET.COM>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 2004 6:52 pm
Subject: Re: My list of the worst ever car names

> Funny, when i pu el camino real into babelfish it came up with "the
> dirt road". Maybe that's the royal road in some parts of latin
> America??On Saturday, March 13, 2004, at 07:18  AM, Automatic
> digest processor
> wrote:
>
> > El Camino is Spanish for "The Horse,"
> >
> > Sorry, but El Camino is NOT Spanish for "The Horse," ( that's "el
> > caballo").  El Camino is Spanish for "the way" or "the road".
> > Example: El camino real (pronounced RAY-AL), translated as The
> king's> highway.
> >
> > Brian
>