Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish explorer of the New World · Spain · Historical Figures · Lived 1485 to 1559 · aged 74
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Something wrong?Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.
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Route of Narváez expedition (until November 1528 at Galveston Island), and speculative historical reconstruction of Cabeza de Vaca's later wanderings
Sculpture of a thinly-clad Cabeza de Vaca on display at the Whitehead Museum in Del Rio, Texas, as he might have appeared to Indians in the lower Rio Grande area around 1536.
A plaque commemorating Cabeza de Vaca as the first European to see the Iguazu Falls
Title page from a 1555 edition of La relacion y comentarios del gobernador Aluar Nuñez Cabeca de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca and companions crossing the Great American Desert. Fanciful illustration in an 1881 book.
Monument to Cabeza de Vaca in Jerez de la FronteraFamily
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is today the Southwestern United States, he became a trader, evangelist, and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536.
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