Mariposa

Mariposa is the Spanish word for "butterfly". In Portuguese, it is both a synonym for "moth" (Brazil) and "butterfly" (Portugal).

It may also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Mariposa, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
• Mariposa, Ontario, an extinct unincorporated community and geographic township
• Mariposa Beach, Ontario, an extinct unincorporated community

Peru

• Mariposa, Junín Province, capital of the Pampa Hermosa district

United States

• Mariposa, California, an unincorporated community
• Mariposa County, California
  • Mariposan (Yokut) people and language of this region
• Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska
• Mariposa, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a master-planned community

Fictional

• Mariposa (fictional town), a fictional town created by Stephen Leacock and modelled on Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
• Mariposa military base, a fictional top-secret military base in the Fallout universe.

Ships

• SS Mariposa (1883), iron ship of the Oceanic Steamship Company which provided service between San Francisco originally to just Hawaii, later also to Australia and New Zealand, became part of the Matson Line in 1926; ship sold in 1912 to the Alaska Steamship Company
• SS Mariposa (1931), Matson Lines ocean liner; renamed SS Homeric in 1953
• USS Mariposa, war service designation of SS Mariposa
• USS Mariposa (X-125), Liberty ship carrying gasoline; sunk December 30, 1944 off Occidental Mindoro by Allied torpedoes after devastating Japanese air attack
• Mariposa (WLB 397), USCG Seagoing Buoy Tender
• SS Mariposa, fictional spacecraft from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up the Long Ladder"
• Mariposa, fictional ship from the novel Martin Eden by Jack London
• Mariposa, fictional starship/admirals gig of Pern from novel Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

Entertainment

• Mariposa, a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
• Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 film starring Kelly Sheridan
• "Mariposas" (Belanova song), a 2011 single by Belanova from the album Sueño Electro II
• "Mariposa", a song on the album Not So Far Away by Wideawake
• "Mariposa Traicionera", a song on the album Revolución de Amor by Maná
• Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña
• Mariposa azul, an alternate title for The Blue Butterfly, a 2004 film by Léa Pool, with William Hurt and Pascale Bussière
• Mariposa Folk Festival, a festival in Orillia, Ontario, Canada
• La Mariposa, a character from the Dead or Alive video game series
• "Mariposa" a 1981 track by the band Freeez from their album Southern Freeez

Other uses

• Mariposa, Spanish for "butterfly", also used in Spanish profanity as a slur against gay men
• Mariposa botnet, a botnet involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks.
• Mariposa (database), a computer database developed at the University of California, Berkeley
• Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park.
• Mariposa lily, a category of the western North American genus Calochortus of bulbous plants
• Mariposa School of Skating, a Canadian figure skating training center