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Cárdenas, García López de (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 Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de (fränthēs`kō väs`kāth dā kōrōnä`thō), c.
..... Click the link for more information. , 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. After 20 days' march he became the first white man to see the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park (1,217,403 acres/492,876 hectares). The park was enlarged in 1975 to include other areas, such as Marble Canyon and parts of Glen Canyon and Lake Mead.
..... Click the link for more information. of the Colorado River. He was not, however, the discoverer of the Colorado itself, for Hernando de Alarcón Alarcón, Hernando de (ārnän`dō dā älärkōn`), fl. 1540, Spanish explorer in the Southwest.
..... Click the link for more information. had explored its lower waters a month earlier.