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    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    Spanish explorer of the New World

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    • 1488/1490/1492

    Jerez de la Frontera, Castile

    DiedAfter 19 May 1559 (aged over 66–71)

    Jerez de la Frontera or Valladolid, Spain

    Resting placeSpain
    Occupation(s)Treasurer, explorer, author of La relación y comentarios, and ex-governor of Río de Plata in Argentina
    SpouseMaría Marmolejo
    Parent(s)Francisco de Vera (father), Teresa Cabeza de Vaca y de Zurita (mother)

    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈalβaɾˈnuɲeθkaˈβeθaðeˈβaka]ⓘ; c.

    1488/90/92[1] – after 19 May 1559) 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 now the US Southwest, he became a trad