Person

Andrés Dorantes de Carranza

early Spanish explorer in the Americas

b. 1500 CE – d. 1550 CE World The Far West

Andrés Dorantes de Carranza (ca.

1500 – 1550), is an early Spanish explorer in the Americas.

He is one of the four last survivors of the Narváez expedition, along with Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Dorantes' slave Estevanico, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado.

They are the first non-native people to travel in the Southwest region of the modern United States.