High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Quivira is a place first mentioned by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado in 1541, who visited it during his searches for the mythical "Seven Cities of Gold". The location and identity of the "Quivirans" has been much debated over a wide area, including Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. They are most often considered to have been Wichita or another Caddoan tribe (Pawnee, Arikara, etc.). After failing to find the Seven Cities of Gold at Cibola, Coronado, while still among the pueblos, met an Indian he called "the Turk", who indicated that he was from the fabulously wealthy city of Quivira, where the chief supposedly drank from golden cups hanging from the trees. Guided by "the Turk", Coronado and his army continued their expedition northeast across the Great Plains, finally coming to a loose collection of teepees that was said to be Quivira.