Rafa (Elena of Avalor)

Rafa de Alva is a character who appears in the Disney Channel animated series, Elena of Avalor. She is Mateo's mother.

Role in the Series
She first appears in "Spellbound" congratulating her son Mateo on becoming a royal wizard and was one of the victims who was placed under Fiero's spell when he started looking for the Codex Maru. But with the efforts of Elena and her friends, Fiero was stopped and then she and everyone else was set free from the spell.

She made her second appearance in "Navidad" when she, Mateo, and Marlena came to invite Elena to their nochebueno celebration and told her all about it. The next day at Castillo Park, she starts setting up for the celebration. When disaster strikes, she and her group agreed to instead do a Navidad parade. When the parade became a disaster she and her family went home. While they were walking home they see Elena and the others on a parranda and joins in. She soon apologizes to the others and sings with everyone else at the castle.