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Vasquez de Coronado's Route (4)

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Under orders from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540, Captain Hernando de Alvarado explored among the pueblos and followed this route from Española to the Pueblo of Taos. Captian Francisco de Barrionuevo also passed this way the following year on his way to the same pueblo.



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