Tortuga

Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to:

Geography

Islands

• Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, a pirate stronghold in the 17th-century
• Tortugas Banks, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States
• Dry Tortugas National Park, a national park consisting of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas
• Isla Tortuga, a volcanic island in the Gulf of California, part of Baja California, Mexico
• La Tortuga Island, an uninhabited 156 km² island in the Caribbean Sea that is a federal dependency of Venezuela
• Las Tortugas, name given by Christopher Columbus to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac

Places

• Freeport Tortuga, a free port project on Tortuga, Haiti, during the early 1970s
• Tortuga, California, an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States
• Tortuga Bay, a bay on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

• Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Television

• Tortuga (Breaking Bad), a fictional drug dealer in the AMC-TV drama, Breaking Bad
• Tortuga, a fictional aircraft in the children's television show Wild Kratts

Games

• Tortuga: Pirates of the New World, a computer game set in the Golden Age of Piracy era

An island in the game Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

Literature

• Tortuga, a novel by Rudolfo Anaya
• Far Tortuga, a 1975 novel by Peter Matthiessen

Sports

• Coliseo La Tortuga, an indoor sporting arena in Talcahuano, Chile
• Daytona Tortugas, a Class A-Advanced minor league baseball team in the Florida State League.

Transportation

• Tortuga (vehicle), a Venezuelan armored vehicle
• SS Antigua, later called SS Tortuga, a turbo-electric liner
• USS Tortuga (LSD-26), a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship commissioned in 1945, in action during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and decommissioned in 1970
• USS Tortuga (LSD-46), a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship commissioned in 1990 and on active service as of 2012

Other uses

• Tortuga (cocktail), a non-alcoholic cocktail beverage
• Tortuga (software), a software framework for discrete event simulation