Estevanico (circa ), also known as Estebanico, Esteban or Estevan de Dorantes, Esteban or Estevan the Negro and Esteban or Estevan el Moro, was an African slave who accompanied Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and two other Spaniards on their return trip to New Spain from the coast of present-day Florida in the Gulf of Mexico to the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. It is often described as.