Tutilpinco

Tutilpinco was an Indigenous town in the lower Arkansas River country, encountered by the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1542. After reaching Ayays on the south bank, the Spaniards built a flatboat to cross the Arkansas and traveled through swampy country to Tutilpinco. The town belonged to a landscape of riverine settlements where maize farming supported substantial communities. Farther downstream lay Anilco, another chiefdom visited by the expedition that spring.