Tanico

Tanico was a Cayas town near the Arkansas River in North America. Its people traded salt made from stream sand.

During Hernando de Soto's expedition of 1539–1543, the chief of Palisema directed the explorers to Tanico. Its people poured water through baskets of sand, dried the brine in shallow bowls and scraped out the salt. The Cayas may have been related to the Tunica, who had moved to the mouth of the Yazoo River by 1699.