Quivira was a province of the ancestral Wichita people,[1] located near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas,[1] 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.[2]
Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado visited in 1541.