Discoverers Web: Coronado Coronado was governor of New Galicia. As such he had already sent out Fray Marcos de Niza on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico. When Marcos returned he told about a wealthy, golden city, called Cibola. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that gold. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies http: //win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/coronado.h...
Discoverers Web: Coronado One of the strangest journeys ever made in search of gold was led by the Spaniard Francisco Coronado. http: //win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/coron...
Francisco Coronado Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador, who between 1540-1542 visited New Mexico and other parts of the southwest of what is now the United States. He was born in Salamanca, Spain. http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Fra...
Francisco Vasquez Coronado Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de 1510-54, Spanish conquistador, first explorer of North America's Southwest, and so-called conqueror of the legendary Seven Cities ofCíbola. http: //eldoradoinc.com/coronado.htm
Francisco Vasquez De Coronado Personal Background--Francisco Vasquez De Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1510 http: //east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/Exp/fvdc/fvdc....