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Cabeza de Vaca is a 1991 Mexican film directed by Nicolás Echevarría and starring Juan Diego about the adventures of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490 – c. 1557), an early Spanish explorer, as he traversed what later became the American South. Cabeza de Vaca was one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition and shipwreck.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92 [1] – after 19 May 1559 [2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.
Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died after 1547) was an early Spanish explorer in the Americas.He was one of the last four survivors of the original members of the 1527 Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza and his African slave Estevanico.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer. Cabeza de Vaca may also refer to: Cabeza de Vaca, a 1991 Mexican film; Cabeza de Vaca, Tumbes, a Peruvian archaeological site; Diego Cabeza de Vaca (d. 1625), Spanish Roman Catholic prelate; Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca (b. 1967), Mexican politician; Francisco Vera Cabeza de Vaca ...
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When Cabeza de Vaca was deposed in April 1544, Schmidel sustained Irala, who was the new governor, and in 1546 accompanied him in his expedition to Peru as far as the foot of the Andes, where he was despatched with Nuño de Chaves to President La Gasca. He accompanied Irala on his last unfortunate expedition of 1550. [1]
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is an outdoor sculpture of the Spanish explorer of the same name by Pilar Cortella de Rubin, installed at Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, in the United States. The bronze bust rests on a granite pedestal and was acquired by the City of Houston in 1986. [1]
La odisea de Cabeza de Vaca: Tras los pasos de Álvar Núñez por tierras americanas. Col. Terra Incógnica (Ensayo histórico). Barcelona: Edhasa, 2008. ISBN:978-84-350-2008. CABA, Rubén y GÓMEZ-LUCENA, Eloísa. Cabeza de Vaca: El Ulises del Nuevo Mundo". Clío Historia, nº 84, Octubre 2008.