Coronado National Memorial, near Sierra Vista, Arizona, commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. In a natural setting on the international border, the memorial confirms the ties that bind the United States and Mexico.

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Official statements indicate that it was initially designed as a gesture of goodwill and cooperation between the United States and Mexico, through the recognition of Coronado's 1540 expedition to the area. For example, in 1939 the House Committee on Foreign Affairs noted:

As a result of this expedition, what has been truly characterized by historians as one of the greatest land expeditions the world has known, a new civilization was established in the great American Southwest.

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