cotochus

Updated: January 12, 2026

Vasco hastened to leave behind a country so little favoured by man and by Nature, and, pressed by hunger, he first dismissed the people of Taocha, and took as guides the two impoverished caciques, one of whom was named Cotochus and the other Ciuriza.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera