Canasoga

Canasoga was an Indigenous settlement encountered by Hernando de Soto's expedition as it crossed the southern Appalachians in 1540. Spanish accounts placed it beyond Guasili on the way toward Chiaha. Travelling along the mountain river valleys, the expedition moved through a country of established towns and cultivated fields before reaching Chiaha on the French Broad. The route taken by the Spaniards later drew Juan Pardo's expedition into the same broad region.