Coronado found the Native American village of Hawikuh at Zuni. He and his expedition were searching for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, but they did not find the riches they had hoped for. Instead, they encountered resistance from the Zuni people.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado found several Native American villages in what is now the southwestern United States during his exploration in the 1540s. These villages were part of the Puebloan peoples, including the Zuni and Hopi communities.
Francisco Vasquez Coronado's crew consisted of soldiers, explorers, guides, and indigenous allies such as Hopi and Zuni people who helped him in his expedition to search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold in the American Southwest in the 16th century.
Instead of finding the Seven Cities of Gold, Coronado's expedition discovered the adobe Pueblo villages in the southwestern United States, such as the pueblos of Acoma and Zuni. These settlements were not the wealthy cities rumored to be filled with gold but rather inhabited by indigenous peoples practicing agriculture and trade.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado had set out in search of gold and other treasures to bring back to Spain, but was disappointed to find only mud, stone, and angry Zuni warriors in the southern Americas - now known as Texas - and Mexico.
Coronado was apparently seeking the legendary "Seven Cities of Gold" which were rumored to exist in the Sonoran Desert in what is now the US Southwest. His expedition from 1540 to 1542 was mostly fruitless, but he did subjugate some of the Zuni Indians, and explored as far as the Great Plains and what is now northern Texas.
Zuni
Coronado visited Compostela, Mexico City, Zuni, Tiguex, Pecos, and Kansas (Wichita Villages).
Yes, but I don't know how they killed him.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
The Zuni and Pueblo Indians.
Coronado travled through areas of Northern Mexico and present-day Arizona and New Mexico. The expedition reached a town belonging to the Zuni people in early summer 1540.
It was an adobe city of the Zuni Indians, and had no fabulous golden structures as described second-hand by one of Coronado's advisors.
Coronado continued the unsuccesful search for Cibola. First,Esteban was killed by the Zuni people in what is now New Mexico.Second,Cabeza de Vaca was shipwreck off the Texas Cost.
Coronado didn't find the 7 Cities of Gold
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado found several Native American villages in what is now the southwestern United States during his exploration in the 1540s. These villages were part of the Puebloan peoples, including the Zuni and Hopi communities.
Francisco Vasquez Coronado's crew consisted of soldiers, explorers, guides, and indigenous allies such as Hopi and Zuni people who helped him in his expedition to search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold in the American Southwest in the 16th century.
The aim of Coronado's expedition was to find the City of Gold. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a Spanish explorer.