Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the Royal Inland
Road, also known as the Silver Route. The inscribed property consists of
55 sites and five existing World Heritage sites lying along a 1400 km
section of this 2600 km route, that extends north from Mexico City to
Texas and New Mexico, United States of America. The route was actively
used as a trade route for 300 years, from the mid-16th to the 19th
centuries, mainly for transporting silver extracted from the mines of
Zacatecas, Guanajuato and San Luis PotosΓ, and mercury imported from
Europe. Although it is a route that was motivated and consolidated by
the mining industry, it also fostered the creation of social, cultural
and religious links in particular between Spanish and Amerindian
cultures.