Pedro Mariño de Lobera, an early conquistador and historian wrote that there were half a million Indians living within ten leagues (one league is roughly 4.2 km) from the city.
Although the early conquistadores had heard from the Indians about a fabulously rich Amazonian civilization, which they named El Dorado, the searches for it invariably ended in disaster.
De Soto expected to find gold and silver in the mountains; After all, earlier conquistadors had found riches in the mountains of Peru and Central Mexico.
The early conquistadores, including Francisco Pizarro and Bartholome Ruiz, documented that the Manteño chiefdom of Western Ecuador were capable mariners.
The early conquistadors were interested primarily in gold; European diseases and forced work in the gold mines decimated the native population.
It was in the geographical resemblance from this certain place that the early Spanish conquistador in Pampanga named the place as Betis.
The appellation "Guiguinto" literally translates to "Gold" for the early conquistadores came and saw this town on a harvest season when it lushes in golden rice stalks against the sun.
The early Portuguese conquistadors referred to Konkani as lingoa Canarim as a reference to Canara.
The earliest conquistadors saw glimpses of their civilization, but by the time they were able to penetrate the rain forest again the people were all but gone and the jungle was quickly reclaiming the land.
The early Spanish conquistadors called the indigenous people devils because they noticed that the indigenous were not baptized and therefore assumed that they worshiped the devil.
