Quivira
![A painting by Frederic Remington of Coronado and his army on the march](/Images/godic/202502/05/Coronado-Remington3224.jpg")
![The Coronado Expedition 1540–1542](/Images/godic/202502/05/Coronado_expedition3225.jpg")
![Coronado found the Teyas Indians in Blanco Canyon, east of present-day Lubbock, Texas. The Querechos lived on the flat Llano Estacado above the canyon.](/Images/godic/202502/05/Blanco_Canyon_White_River_Texas_20093225.jpg")
![A sketch of a Wichita Indian village in the 19th century. The beehive shaped grass-thatched houses surrounded by corn fields are characteristic and appear similar to those described by Coronado in 1541.](/Images/godic/202502/05/Wichita_Indian_village_1850-18753225.jpg")
Quivira is a place named by explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1541, for the mythical "Seven Cities of Gold" which he never found. The location of Quivira is believed by most authorities to be in central Kansas near present-day Lyons extending northeastern to Salina. The Quivirans were the forebears of the modern day Wichita Indians and Caddoan tribes, such as the Pawnee or Arikara.