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"RELACION DEL DESCUBRIMIENTO DEL PAIS Y CIUDAD DE QUIVIRA, HECHO POR D. DIEGO DIONISIO DE PEÑALOSA, …AÑO DE 1662. ESCRITA POR EL PADRE FR. NICOLAS DE FREYTAS". Quivira is a legendary lost city that was supposedly located in North America and has been the subject of many legends and myths.Since 1540 several spanish expeditions were in search of Quivira, headed by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, in 1594 by, Francisco Leyba Bonilla and Antonio de Umana made another attempt to find the Quivira of Coronado, but none of them returned from this journey; in 1601 by Juan de Oñate; in 1634 Captain Alonzo Vaca claimed to found Quivira 750 miles 300 east of New Mexico, and in 1662 by Diego Dionisio de Penalosa, who allegedly found a large settlement he called a city.