Mariposa

Introduction

Look up mariposa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. It may also refer to:

Geography

[edit] Canada[edit] 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[edit] Mariposa, Satipo Province, capital of the Pampa Hermosa District in Peru United States[edit] 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, a light rail station in El Segundo, California UCSF Medical Center station, also signed as Mariposa Street, a light rail station in San Francisco, California Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park

Sea vessels

[edit] 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 SS Mariposa (1953), originally built as the cargo ship Pine Tree Mariner USCGC Mariposa, a USCG seagoing buoy tender

Entertainment

[edit] Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear La Mariposa (Dead or Alive), a character in the video game series Dead or Alive La Mariposa, a 1998 novel by Francisco Jiménez (writer) Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)

People and history

[edit] 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

[edit] Mariposa Folk Festival, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada Albums[edit] Mariposa (album), a 2015 album by Lodovica Comello Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña Mariposa, a 1992 album by Rein Sanction Songs[edit] "Mariposas" (Sangiovanni song), a 2022 song by Sangiovanni with Aitana "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 from 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 from Not So Far Away "Mariposa", a 2024 song by Fiorella Mannoia from Disobbedire "Mariposas", a 2010 song by Shakira from Sale el Sol "Mariposas", a 2011 song by Belanova on Sueño Electro II "Dirty Mariposa", a 2022 song by Parov Stelar from Moonlight Love Affair Artists[edit] Mariposa, a pseudonym of Madeline Johnston

Other

[edit] 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 Mariposa, a 2020 Indonesian film