Calpista

Calpista was one of the Indigenous provinces named in accounts of Hernando de Soto and his passage through Arkansas in 1541. It lay among communities of the interior highlands, between Coligua and Palisema on the route described by the expedition. Salt springs have been suggested as a feature of the country associated with Calpista. The people of the region lived among wooded hills and river valleys, in contact with the larger settlements of the Mississippi lowlands.