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Garcia Lopez De CardenasThe son of Alonso de Crdenas y doa Elvira de Figueroa and Maria Garca Osorio, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was the comendador de Caravaca. Cardenas was a conquistador attached to the exploits of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. Expeditions, including one led by Pedro de Tobar, had heard reports of a large river north of Cbola (Zui). Crdenas was dispatched in 1540 by the general stationed in Cbola with the express mission of locating such a river and returning within 80 days. Pedro de Sotomayor accompanied him to record the event as a cronista. After some twenty days of marching in a northerly direction, he was successful; but his band found difficulties in reaching the river (called the River Tizon), owing to the sheer vertical distance down from their position. They were standing on the South Rim, a great canyon. After several days of failed attempts to descend to the water (his men were suffering from thirst), his party was forced to return to Cbola. While Cardenas is credited with being the first European to lay eyes on the Grand Canyon, Hernando de Alarcn had explored the Colorado River several months beforehand.
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