Cofaqui

Cofaqui was a town in the Oconee River valley, part of the late Mississippian world of Georgia's wooded interior. Its community belonged to the network of chiefly centres associated with Ocute and Altamaha. Maize fields surrounded the valley towns, where earthworks and open spaces served political and ceremonial life for their inhabitants.

Hernando de Soto's expedition passed through Cofaqui in 1540 after visiting Ocute. The Spaniards were searching for a wealthy country farther east, known as Cofitachequi. Beyond the Oconee settlements they encountered a sparsely inhabited stretch of country before reaching that chiefdom. In the following century the broader Ocute region became known to the Spanish as La Tama, until slave raids and warfare drove its people to seek homes elsewhere.