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Between the years of 1539 and 1821, the Spanish Empire explored, colonized, and ruled over what is the state of Arizona in the United States. In 1539, Fray Marcos de Niza passed through what is now southeastern Arizona in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola.
In the spring of 1687, the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino lived and worked with the Native Americans in the area called the Pimería Alta, or "Upper Pima Country," which presently includes the Mexican state of Sonora and the southern portion of Arizona.
The earliest documented Spanish activity in southern Arizona is the 1539 expedition headed by Fray Marcos de Niza, in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. Their stay in Arizona was brief and transitory, as they quickly passed into New Mexico and into the history of that region.
17 Μαρ 2009 · Southwest of Patagonia is the San Jos de Sonoita Grant, the smallest grant made in Arizona. It was applied for in 1821 by Leon Herreras, a resident of Tubac, who had it surveyed and who received title in 1825 for 7,598 acres.
For Spanish settlers in Southern Arizona, the major events of the late 18th century were the Jesuit Expulsion of 1767 and the transfer of the Tubac military garrison to new quarters at Tucson in 1776.
Fray Marcos followed Estiban's trail, marked with cairns of rock, up the Sonora River and north along the San Pedro River in Arizona. Their trail took them past the location of present-day Benson, Arizona. Moving further north, Estuiban crossed the White Mountains into northeast Arizona.
The earliest documented Spanish activity in southern Arizona is the 1539 expedition headed by Fray Marcos de Niza, in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. Their stay in Arizona was brief and transitory, as they quickly passed into New Mexico and into the history of that region.
