Mariposa
Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. It may also refer to:
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Geography
Canada
- Mariposa, Ontario, former municipality of the southwest corner of Victoria County
- Mariposa, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
- Mariposa (fictional town), a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock, modelled on Orillia, Ontario
Peru
- Mariposa, Satipo Province, capital of the Pampa Hermosa District in Peru
United States
- Mariposa County, California, a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
- Mariposa, California, seat of the county in California
- Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska
- Mariposa, a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
- Mariposa station (Los Angeles Metro)
- Mariposa station (San Francisco)
- Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park
Sea vessels
- SS Mariposa (1883), iron ship of the Oceanic Steamship Company which provided service between San Francisco and other Pacific ports
- SS Mariposa (1931), Matson Lines ocean liner; renamed SS Homeric in 1953
- USCGC Mariposa (WLB-397), a USCG seagoing buoy tender
Entertainment
- Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
- La Mariposa, a 1998 novel by Francisco Jiménez (writer)
People and history
- Mariposa War, a war between Native Americans and miners in California that lasted from May 1850 until June 1851
- Las Mariposas, nickname for the Mirabal sisters, Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo
- Mariposa Battalion, a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokuts people in the Mariposa War
Music
- Mariposa Folk Festival, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada
Albums
- Mariposa (album), a 2015 album by Lodovica Comello
- Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña
- Mariposa, a 1992 album by Rein Sanction
Songs
- "Mariposas" 2022 single released by the Spanish singer Aitana with Sangiovanni
- "Mariposa" (song), a 2019 song by Peach Tree Rascals
- "La Mariposa", classical guitar composition by Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
- "Mariposa", a 1981 song by Freeez on Southern Freeez
- "Mariposa", a 2000 song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from El viaje de Copperpot
- "Mariposa", a 2003 song by Sugarfree
- "Mariposa", a 2005 song by Wideawake on Not So Far Away
- "Mariposas", a 2010 song by Shakira on Sale el Sol
- "Mariposas", a 2011 song by Belanova on Sueño Electro II
- "Dirty Mariposa", a 2022 song by Parov Stelar from the album "Moonlight Love Affair"
Artists
- Mariposa, a pseudonym of Madeline Johnston
Other
- Mariposa botnet, a botnet involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks
- Mariposa lily, a bulbous plant species of the genus Calochortus; native to western North America
- Mariposa School of Skating, a Canadian figure-skating training center
- Moth, a flying insect related to the butterfly
- Mariposa (wrestler), American professional wrestler
- Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)
- Mariposa, a 2020 Indonesian film
- Mariposa (programming language), a programming language with constructs sensitive to time
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