FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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3 years
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4 years
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Detailed explanation-1: -The travelers gained a reputation as healers, and their fame spread as they slowly made their way to Mexico. Cabeza de Vaca and his companions eventually arrived in Mexico City in 1536. They had traveled nearly 2, 400 miles over eight years in Texas and the Mexican borderlands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 1490, Extremadura, Castile [now in Spain]-died c. 1560, Sevilla, Spain), Spanish explorer who spent eight years in the Gulf region of present-day Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain in 1537 and expressed outrage at the Spanish treatment of Indians. He led an expedition in 1541 and 1542 from Santos, Brazil to Asuncion, Paraguay.
Detailed explanation-4: -Map of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca’s journey through Texas, along the coast, up to San Angelo, along the Rio Grande, and finally down into Mexico. An area in south Texas is circled in red and labeled “Tuna Area."