THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
They allow researchers to recover places that modern geography has effectively erased.
Capachequi may have disappeared as a living political name, but its physical remains survived.
THE EXPEDITION MOVES ON
After its stay in the Capachequi area, de Soto’s army continued.
That movement is one of the most remarkable features of the expedition.
The soldiers crossed rivers, entered new territories, negotiated with new leaders, and repeatedly demanded resources.
They were not following a modern road.
They were moving through an Indigenous transportation network.
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