Coronado Expedition (1540–1542)

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:explorer
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Coronado_entrada
gptkbp:departedFrom	gptkb:Nueva_Galicia,_Mexico
gptkbp:documentedIn	gptkb:Pedro_de_Castañeda gptkb:Juan_Jaramillo
gptkbp:encounteredBy	gptkb:Turk_(Native_guide) Estevanico (African guide, earlier related expeditions)
gptkbp:endDate	1542
gptkbp:explores	gptkb:Southwestern_United_States gptkb:Great_Plains gptkb:Northern_Mexico present-day Arizona present-day Kansas present-day New Mexico present-day Texas present-day Oklahoma
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	first major European exploration of the American Southwest
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Coronado Expedition (1540–1542)
gptkbp:leader	gptkb:Francisco_Vázquez_de_Coronado
gptkbp:notableEvent	encounter with Pueblo peoples encounter with Wichita people encounter with Zuni people first European sighting of the Colorado River first European sighting of the Grand Canyon
gptkbp:participants	about 1,000 indigenous allies about 300 Spanish soldiers
gptkbp:purpose	search for the Seven Cities of Gold
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Seven_Cities_of_Cibola gptkb:Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain gptkb:Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas
gptkbp:result	failure to find gold increased Spanish knowledge of North American interior
gptkbp:sponsor	gptkb:Spanish_Crown
gptkbp:startDate	1540
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Francisco_Vásquez_de_Coronado
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6