Candelaria

Candelaria (or Candelária) may refer to:

People

• John Candelaria (born 1953), American baseball pitcher
• Candelaria Pérez (1810–1870), sergeant in the Chilean Army, hero of the Battle of Yungay
• Nash Candelaria (born 1928), U.S. author
• Luis Candelaria (1892-1963), Argentinian military aviator, who completed the first air crossing of the Andes in 1918

Places

Argentina

• Candelaria (Misiones), Misiones Province
• Candelaria, San Luis, a village and municipality in San Luis Province
• La Candelaria, Catamarca, a village and municipality in Catamarca Province
• La Candelaria, Salta, a village and rural municipality in Salta Province

Brazil

• Candelária Church, a historical church in Rio de Janeiro
  • Candelária massacre, 1993 massacre near the church
• Candelária, Rio Grande do Sul

Chile

• Candelaria mine, a copper deposit in Atacama Region.

Colombia

• Candelaria, Valle del Cauca
• Candelaria, Atlántico
• La Candelaria, a historic neighborhood in Bogotá

Cuba

• Candelaria, Cuba, Artemisa Province

Dominican Republic

• Candelária, Dominican Republic, a small country village in El Seibo Province

El Salvador

• Candelaria, Cuscatlán
• Candelaria de la Frontera

Guatemala

• Candelaria Caves, a natural cave system in the municipalities of Chisec and Raxruha

Guinea-Bissau

• Candelaria, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Honduras

• Candelaria, Lempira

Mexico

• Candelaria, Campeche
• Candelaria Loxicha
• Metro Candelaria, a station on the Mexico City Metro
• Fiesta de la Candelaria

Philippines

• Candelaria, Quezon
• Candelaria, Zambales

Portugal

• Candelária (Madalena), a civil parish in the municipality of Madalena, island of Pico, Azores
  • Candelária Sport Clube, a roller hockey team from the civil parish of Candelária
• Candelária (Ponta Delgada), a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, island of São Miguel, Azores

Puerto Rico

• Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, founded as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
• Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Barrio Candelaria under Sabana Hoyos municipality.

Spain

• Candelaria, Tenerife, a municipality in the island of Tenerife in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands

United States

• Candelaria, Texas, Presidio County
• Candelaria, Nevada, mining ghost town

Religion

• The Spanish name for Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, a Christian festival, also known as Candlemas
• The Virgin of Candelaria, an apparition of the Virgin Mary

Other

• Candelaria (lichen), a genus of yellow lichens
• Candelaria (reptile), an extinct genus of owenettid parareptiles

See also

• Candelario (disambiguation)