Catalte

Catalte was a small Indigenous province of the lower Arkansas country, in a landscape of bayous and floodplain forest. One reconstruction places it along Bayou Bartholomew. In 1542 Luis de Moscoso led the survivors of the de Soto expedition away from Guachoya and through this region in search of a route to Mexico. Beyond the bayous, their journey crossed oak, hickory and pine forests toward the interior.