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Cabeza de Vaca

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[kah-ve-thah the vah-kah, -ve-sah] / kɑˈvɛ θɑ ðɛ ˈvɑ kɑ, -ˈvɛ sɑ /

noun

  1. Álvar Núñez c1490–1557?, Spanish explorer in the Americas.


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In Chapter 4’s examination of 16th-century Spanish exploration, for example, Gov. Juan Ponce de León of Puerto Rico appears in around 10 sentences, while chronicler Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca receives whole paragraphs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

U.S. authorities had trouble getting on the phone with Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Only four survivors, who included the officer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and an African slave named Estaban, stumbled back to Mexico in 1536, after years of wandering and Indian captivity.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

By 2006, Mexico’s then attorney general Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said in a news conference she had become the chief financial operator for the cartel.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2015

The temperament of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, however, was of too refined and trusting an order to deal with the turbulent and somewhat treacherous elements which abounded at Asuncion.

From South America by Koebel, W. H. (William Henry)