For the real places of this name, see Cibola National Forest, Cibola, Arizona and Cibola County, New Mexico. The Cibola National Forest stretches from western Oklahoma to western New Mexico. ... Cibola is a census-designated place located in La Paz County, Arizona. ... Cibola County is a county located in the state of New Mexico. ...
Cibola is a mythical land whose seven cities' golden treasures drew the Conquistadors northward through the Jornada del Muerto Desert, the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), in which they encountered a 'Sea of Grass', and finally, the French, who resisted further northward advance. A mythical place is a place that does not really exist but is accepted folk lore or speculation that it might exist or might have existed in earlier times but its actual location is now lost. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... Conquistador (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who achieved the Conquista (this Spanish term is generally accepted by historians), i. ... The Jornada del Muerto (journey of the deadman in Spanish) was the name given by the Spanish conquistadors to the 1660s route northward from New Spain, or Mexico. ... Llano Estacado is a region in the southwestern United States that encompasses parts of northeastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. ...
Cibola NWR is located in the floodplain of the lower Colorado River and surrounded by a fringe of desert ridges and washes.
Cibola Lake and adjoining lands are closed to all activities from Labor Day to March 15 in order to provide a safe and undisturbed area for the wintering waterfowl.
The origin of the name Cibola is unknown, but is is probably derived from the steamboat landing and community of Cibola where the stamers unloaded freight and took on wood for their boilers.
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