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Belén on the Camino Real (1)

Belén on the Camino Real (1) is a New Mexico historical marker in Valencia County.

NM Highway 314 -- mile marker 2.5 -- Belen -- north of Belen

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By the mid 18th century, Spanish colonization had begun along the Río Grande south of Albuquerque. The Belén land grant was made to encourage this expansion, and colonists from Albuquerque settled here around 1740. The early community also included a group of genizaros, or Hispanicized Indians. Belén is Spanish for Bethlehem. Population–5617 Elevation–4800 ft.

The Historic Preservation Division notes that its marker spreadsheet may be out of date and in places inaccurate, and that it does not know where every marker now stands. These pages carry the spreadsheet’s record; a marker listed here may have moved or may no longer stand. the program’s page ↗

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State of New Mexico. General Land Office, 1927, covering the location of Belén on the Camino Real (1), with a pin at the marker's coordinates
State of New Mexico. General Land Office, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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Marker data: Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsMarker texts come from the Division’s published marker spreadsheet, reproduced with the Division’s written permission. Where that spreadsheet records a coordinate, the pin is the Division’s own; where it records only a highway and mile marker, an address, a junction or a named place, or where its coordinate contradicts its own highway, mile and county, the pin is ours, resolved on public road and place data and marked approximate.

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