García López de Cárdenas y Figueroa was a Spanish conquistador who was the first European to see the Grand Canyon. Cárdenas was born in Llerena, then part of Crown of Castile, second son to Alonso de Cárdenas, 1st Count of La Puebla del Maestre, and wife Maria García Osorio. He was the Encomiendador of Caravaca.

The first Europeans to see Grand Canyon were soldiers led by García López de Cárdenas. In 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and his Spanish army traveled northward from Mexico City in search of the Seven Cities of Cíbola.

García López de Cárdenas (gärthē´ä lō´pĕth dā kär´dānäs), fl. 1540, Spanish explorer in the Southwest. A member of the 1540 expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, he was selected to lead a party from Cibola (the Zuñi country of New Mexico) to find a river of which the Hopi had spoken.

2022年12月5日 · Garcia Lopez de Cardenas Coronado found himself involved in innumerable conflicts with the natives of the area, which prevented him from going to meet Alarcón, but not to wait for the Cárdenas...

García López de Cárdenas y Figueroa fue un explorador español del siglo XVI, conocido por ser el descubridor del Gran Cañón del Colorado. [1]

The part of the story that intrigues me the most is the discovery by the first Europeans to see Grand Canyon, in August of 1540, led by Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, a captain in Coronado’s army.

2012年9月17日 · Conspicuous in Coronado’s army and destined to be heard of in resounding tones was García López de Cárdenas, a soldier who had already given important service in the New World. Like Coronado, a second son of a Spanish nobleman, he was left without a fortune by the law of primogeniture.

Nacido en Llerena hacia el año 1500, la vida de López de Cárdenas es una de las más emocionantes pero, a la vez, con más incógnitas de todos los grandes conquistadores y exploradores de la Historia.

Don García López de Cárdenas was born sometime between 1512 and 1514 in Madrid (Madrid province) to Nunfro Ramírez and doña Mencía de Cárdenas. Prior to his obtaining a license to travel to Peru in May 1535, don García had served the king in Germany and Italy.

Cárdenas, García López de gärthēˈä lōˈpĕth dā kärˈdānäs [key], fl. 1540, Spanish explorer in the Southwest. A member of the 1540 expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, he was selected to lead a party from Cibola (the Zuñi country of New Mexico) to find a river of which the Hopi had spoken.