Columbus camps on the Yaquí and names it Río de las Cañas

They then went down the mountain, which lasts much longer than the ascent, with great rejoicing and gladness, and crossed the most fortunate vega, which is five leagues wide at that point, passing through many towns whose people received them as men come from heaven, until they reached the great and most gracious river that the Indians called Yaquí, with as much water and as powerful as the Ebro at Tortosa, or the Guadalquivir at Cantillana. The Admiral called it the Río de las Cañas, the River of the Reeds, forgetting that on the first voyage, when he stood at its mouth, which comes out at Monte-Christi, he had named it the Rio del Oro. On the bank of this river they all slept that night, very glad and content, bathing and taking their ease in it, and enjoying the sight and pleasantness of so happy and gracious a land and its delightful airs, especially at that season, which was March. For although in this island, as in many other places and in most of these Indies, there is little difference from one season to another throughout the year, yet those months from September to May are a life like Paradise, as, God willing, will be said more fully below.