Calavera (Spanish for skull) or its plural calaveras, may refer to:

Culture

  • Calaveras, any of various skull-shaped things associated with the
  • Literary Calavera, traditional Mexican composition in verse

Places

  • Calaveras River, in the Central Valley of California, USA
  • Calaveras Creek (California), USA
  • Calaveras County, California, USA
  • Rancho Calaveras, California, USA
  • Calaveras Dome, California, USA; a granite dome
  • Cerro de la Calavera (), Carlsbad, California, USA
  • Calaveras Unified School District, Calaveras County, California, USA
  • Calaveras Fault, a geological fault in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
  • Calaveras Valley, California, USA
  • La Calavera Historical Neighborhood, Smeltertown, Texas, USA
  • Calaveras, Texas, USA; a small town near San Antonio
  • Calaveras Creek, Texas, USA
  • Calaveras Lake (Texas), USA
  • Isla Calavera, an island in the Gulf of California

Facilities and structures

  • Calaveras Power Station, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • Calaveras Reservoir, California, USA
  • Calaveras County Airport, Calaveras County, California, USA
  • Calaveras station, BART, Silicon Valley, California, USA

People

  • Jordi Calavera (born 1995) Spanish soccer player
  • Calavera II, a former ring name for pro-wrestler luchador Jesús Javier Hernández Silva (1971–1993) aka Oro (wrestler)

Fictional characters

  • Calaveras, a member of the Black Moon Clan, the primary villains in the Sailor Moon R manga and anime series
  • Calaveras, the subordinates of the Arrancar Rudobone in the Bleach manga and anime series
  • Francisca Calavera, titular character of the comic Calavera (comics)
  • Manuel Calavera, the protagonist in the LucasArts 1998 adventure game, Grim Fandango
  • Maria Calvera, a character from RWBY
  • Robi Calavera, titular character of the animated series The Swashbuckling Adventures of Capitán Calavera

Other uses

  • El Calavera (film), 1954 Argentinian film
  • Calavera (album), a 2001 album by 'Fiskales Ad-Hok'
  • Calavera (comics), an adult comic featuring a female assassin with razor claws named Francisca Calavera
  • Trío Calaveras, a Mexican musical trio

See also

  • Siro calaveras (S. calaveras) a species of mite harvestman
  • "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", a short story by Mark Twain

The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, opera by Lukas Foss based on the short story by Mark Twain

  • Calavera Hills School, Carlsbad, California, USA
  • Calaveras Hills High School, Milpitas, California, USA
  • Calaveras Skull, a human skull discovered in Calaveras County
  • Calaverite
  • Calaveras Big Trees (disambiguation)
  • Calaveras Lake (disambiguation)
  • Skull (disambiguation)