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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.
The Moor's Account is a fictional memoir of Estebanico, the Moroccan slave who survived the Narvaez expedition and accompanied Cabeza de Vaca. He is widely considered to be the first African explorer of America, but little is known about his early life except for one line in Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle: "The fourth [survivor] is Estebanico, an ...
Estevanico (c. 1500 –1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America. He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado.
José Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, GE (29 January 1920 – 30 August 2007) was a Spanish nobleman, author, socialite and film actor. . His peculiar character, described as "a mixture of aristocratic arrogance, self-confidence and unconcern", [1] brought him frequent enmities with other public figu
Nicolás Echevarría (born 8 August 1947) is a Mexican film director and cinematographer.He has directed over 20 films since 1973. His 1991 film Cabeza de Vaca was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.
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 ...
Cabeza de Vaca, one of only four survivors of the Pánfilo de Narváez expedition of 1527, may have traveled through what is now New Mexico and Arizona. In 1535, he tells of hearing Indigenous people talk about fabulous cities somewhere in the North American Southwest.