Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján
Díaz died on the trip back to the camp in the valley of the Corazones. Don Garcia Lopez de
Cardenas saw the Colorado River from the rim of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon while
looking for a route that would connect them with Alarcón's fleet.
The Legend of the Seven Cities
The Legend of the Seven Cities of Gold dates back to the eighth century, when the Moors of Africa
conquered Spain for Islam. The archbishop of Porto in Portugual was believed to have set sail with six
other bishops and a group of colonists and their cattle and supplies. The Christians reached land, so
the story goes, burned their ships so that no one would be tempted to return to Spain, and each
bishop built a fabulously rich city. Spanish cartographers had traditionally placed these cities on an
island somewhere in the Atlantic, but as more and more islands were explored and no cities turned up,
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