| Quivira was a province of the ancestral Wichita people, located near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, The exact site may be near present-day Lyons extending northeast to Salina.
The Wichita city of Etzanoa, which flourished between 1450 and 1700, is likely part of Quivira.
Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado visited in 1541. |
