Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly.

It may also refer to:

Geography

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

Peru

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

United States

  • Mariposa County, California, a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
  • Mariposa, California, seat of the county in California
  • Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska
  • Mariposa, a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
  • Mariposa station (Los Angeles Metro)
  • Mariposa station (San Francisco)
  • Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park

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
  • SS Mariposa (1953), originally built as the cargo ship Pine Tree Mariner
  • , a USCG seagoing buoy tender

Entertainment

  • Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
  • La Mariposa (Dead or Alive), a character in the video game series Dead or Alive
  • La Mariposa, a 1998 novel by Francisco Jiménez (writer)
  • Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)

People and history

  • Mariposa War, a war between Native Americans and miners in California that lasted from May 1850 until June 1851
  • Las Mariposas, nickname for the Mirabal sisters, Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo
  • Mariposa Battalion, a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokuts people in the Mariposa War

Music

  • Mariposa Folk Festival, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada

Albums

  • Mariposa (album), a 2015 album by Lodovica Comello
  • Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña
  • Mariposa, a 1992 album by Rein Sanction

Songs

  • "Mariposas" (Sangiovanni song), a 2022 song by Sangiovanni with Aitana
  • "Mariposa" (song), a 2019 song by Peach Tree Rascals
  • "La Mariposa", classical guitar composition by Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
  • "Mariposa", a 1981 song by Freeez from Southern Freeez
  • "Mariposa", a 2000 song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from El viaje de Copperpot
  • "Mariposa", a 2003 song by Sugarfree
  • "Mariposa", a 2005 song by Wideawake from Not So Far Away
  • "Mariposa", a 2024 song by Fiorella Mannoia from Disobbedire
  • "Mariposas", a 2010 song by Shakira from Sale el Sol
  • "Mariposas", a 2011 song by Belanova on Sueño Electro II
  • "Dirty Mariposa", a 2022 song by Parov Stelar from Moonlight Love Affair

Artists

  • Mariposa, a pseudonym of Madeline Johnston

Other

  • Mariposa botnet, a botnet involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks
  • 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
  • Moth, a flying insect related to the butterfly
  • Mariposa (wrestler), American professional wrestler
  • Mariposa, a 2020 Indonesian film

See also

  • Mariposan, the Yokuts people and language of California