Mariposa

Mariposa is the Spanish word for Butterfly. It may also refer to:

• La Mariposa, a character from the Dead or Alive video game series
• Las Mariposas, nickname for the Mirabal sisters, Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo
• Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
• Mariposa Battalion, a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokut people in the Mariposa War
• Mariposa botnet, a botnet involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks
• Mariposa Folk Festival, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada
• Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park
• 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
• Mariposa War, a war between Native Americans and miners in California that lasted from May 1850 until June 1851
• 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)

Places

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
• Mariposa, fictional planet from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up The Long Ladder"

Peru:

• Mariposa, Satipo Province, capital of the Pampa Hermosa District in Peru

United States:

• Mariposa, California, an unincorporated area in California
• Mariposa County, California, a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
• Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska
• Mariposa, a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
• Mariposa station (Los Angeles Metro)
• Mariposa station (San Francisco)

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
• Mariposa (WLB 397), a USCG seagoing buoy tender

Recorded music

• "Mariposa", the first song on Freeez's 1981 album Southern Freeez
• Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña
• "Mariposa", a 2003 song from Filipino rock band Sugarfree's first album
• "Mariposa", the first song on Wideawake's 2005 album Not So Far Away
• Mariposa (Lodovica Comello album), a 2015 album by Lodovica Comello
• "Mariposas", a song by Shakira from her 2010 album Sale el Sol
• "Mariposas" (Belanova song), a 2011 single by Belanova from the album Sueño Electro II
• "Viva Mariposa", a song from the album Goldkinder by German deathcore band We Butter the Bread with Butter

See also

• Mariposan, the Yokut people and language of California