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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
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)
Science fiction:
- Mariposa, fictional planet from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up The Long Ladder"
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 (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
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