Vasquez de Coronado's Route New Mexico

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Vasquez de Coronado's Route

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In July 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, leader of an army of Spaniards and Indians, entered New Mexico from Arizona searching for the mythical Seven Cities of Cibola, which proved to be the six Zuñi villages then located near the present pueblo.

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