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    Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ˈβaθkeθ ðe koɾoˈnaðo]; 1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer...
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    Coronado Heights is a hill northwest of Lindsborg, Kansas, United States. It is alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado gave up...
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    The Coronado National Memorial commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540. The...
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  • de Padilla, OFM (1500–1542) was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary who spent much of his life exploring North America with Francisco Vásquez de...
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    Coronado, named for the Spanish conquistador and explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, opened its doors in 1965 as the fourth high school in Lubbock...
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  • 1450 and 1700, is likely part of Quivira. Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado visited in 1541. Archaeological evidence suggests that Quivira...
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  • Texas, who first made contact with Europeans during the 1541 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado expedition. The tribal affiliation and language of the Teyas...
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  • National Congress Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador Francisco Velázquez, former Argentine roller hockey player Francisco Lachowski, Brazilian...
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  • mining engineer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510–1554), Spanish conquistador Gabe Vasquez, New Mexico politician Gabriel Vásquez (1549–1604), Spanish...
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    honor. Juan Vázquez de Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, the out of wedlock son of a prominent nobleman, Gonzalo Vásquez de Coronado y Luján (c. 1500...
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  • Spaniards known to have visited the Pueblo Indians since Francisco Vásquez de Coronado 40 years earlier. Fray Agustín Rodríguez, stationed near the mining...
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  • living on the Southern Plains. In 1541 the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his army journeyed east from the Rio Grande Valley in search...
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  • United States, for the most part in Texas. The Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado quested for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the 16th century...
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    under direction by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to find the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, Captain García López de Cárdenas led a party of Spanish...
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  • Francisco Vázquez may refer to: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (c. 1510–1554), Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez Gómez (1860–1933), Mexican personal...
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  • Coronado High School is a public high school in Henderson, Nevada, part of Clark County School District. The school was named after Francisco Vásquez...
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    Mexican grizzly were the conquistadors in the 16th century, when Francisco Vásquez de Coronado went on an expedition to find the Seven Cities of Gold. His...
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  • Coronado is a Spanish surname derived from the village of Cornado, near A Coruña, Galicia. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510–1554), Spanish explorer...
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    Zapotecs. As viceroy, Mendoza commissioned the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to explore and establish settlements in the northern lands of...
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  • Scottsdale Unified School District. Coronado High School, named after the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, opened to students in grades 9-12...
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    Lane Patrick Churchill Jack Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Alonso Alvarez de Pineda Alonso de León Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Hamilton Prieleaux Bee William...
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  • Henry Hudson, Pedro Menéndez, Jean Ribault, Vitus Bering and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. The show was mainly filmed in Jacksonville, Florida, with The...
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    ("Montezuma cypress"). The area was named by the conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. His expedition of 1540 camped at the confluence of the two...
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    1540 Hernando de Soto undertook an extensive exploration of the present United States. In the same year Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led 2,000 Spaniards...
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    earn their way, from Spanish conquistadors such as Lope de Aguirre and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, to explorers, missionaries and saints of the Catholic...
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  • generally accepted as ancestral to the Wichita peoples described by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and other early European explorers. The discovery of limited...
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    confirmed in the 1990s, of having been used as a campsite by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his army twice in spring of 1541 while on his El Dorado...
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    monsoon season. There is a legend that the Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado prayed for rain on June 24, 1540. Right after his prayers, it...
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    fourth group of people in Texas may have been Jumano. In 1541, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado encountered a group of people he called Teyas at the headwaters...
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    City and 150 miles (240 km) east of Amarillo, Texas. In 1541, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado became the first known European to pass through the area. The...
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