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García López de Cárdenas , fl. 1540, Spanish explorer in the Southwest. A member of the 1540 expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado , he was selected to lead a party from Cibola (the Zuñi country of New Mexico) to find a river of which the Hopi had spoken. After 20 days' march he became the first white man to see the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. He was not, however, the discoverer of the Colorado itself, for Hernando de Alarcón had explored its lower waters a month earlier.
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García López de Cárdenas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition García López de Cárdenas , fl. 1540, Spanish explorer in the Southwest. A member of the 1540 expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado... |
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Grand Canyon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...projecting over the canyon rim.) The first European to see the canyon was the Spanish explorer García López de Cárdenas in 1540. In 1869 the U.S. explorer John Wesley Powell became the first person to lead a party... |
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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Nevertheless he sent out his lieutenants: Pedro de Tovar visited the Hopi villages in N Arizona, García López de Cárdenas discovered the Grand Canyon, and Hernando de Alvarado struck out eastward and visited Acoma... |
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Hernando de Alarcón
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...however, to make contact with Coronado's expedition. He explored the river a few months before García López de Cárdenas discovered the Grand Canyon. |
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