# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-vazquez-de-coronado
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:48:46.095Z

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name: "Francisco Vázquez de Coronado"
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birthDate: "1510"
deathDate: "1554-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Francisco Vázquez de Coronado left Mexico in 1540 leading a large expedition north in search of the Cities of Cíbola, the fabled Seven Cities of Gold that Spanish rumor had placed somewhere in the unknown lands beyond the frontier. The treasure never materialized. What his party encountered instead, between 1540 and 1542, was geography: the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, and a sweep of the southwestern United States extending all the way to present-day Kansas, none of it previously recorded by Europeans. He returned empty-handed by the standards of conquistador ambition. He died in September 1554, twelve years after the expedition ended, his name eventually Anglicized and attached to the landscape he'd been the first of his world to see.