Jornada del Muerto is a desert basin in New Mexico, named by Spanish conquistadors for the roughly 90-mile waterless trail that crossed it as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, linking colonial New Spain to the northern reaches of Nuevo Mexico Province. Spaceport America sits in the basin's middle portion, and the Trinity nuclear test site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945, lies in its northern part.
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Jornada del Muerto was the name given by the Spanish conquistadors to a desert basin in New Mexico and the almost waterless 90-mile (140 km) trail across it, beginning north of Las Cruces and ending south of Socorro.
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