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Quivira

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.

Quivira (disambiguation)

Quivira may refer to:

  • Quivira, a place first visited by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado while in search of the mythical Seven Cities of Gold
  • Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, a salt marsh located in south central Kansas
  • Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, a wilderness area in southern Arizona
  • Lake Quivira, Kansas, a city in Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The population was 932 at the 2000 census
  • Quivira (Titan), a bright albedo feature on Saturn's moon Titan
  • Quivira Wine, a winery in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County, California
  • Quivira (typeface)
Quivira (typeface)

Quivira is a serif Unicode typeface by Alexander Lange containing 11,053 characters (version 4.1).

Usage examples of "quivira".

It would only get worse: tomorrow afternoon, if her navigation was correct, they would hit the Devils Backbone, the massive hogback ridge that separated their canyon system from the even more remote and isolated system in which Quivira was hidden.

On long space missions, sessions in the quivira were a medicine for sensory impoverishment.