Buenaventura

Buenaventura (Spanish, 'good fortune', and the name of Saint Bonaventure) or Buena Ventura may refer to:

People

 * Buenaventura Báez (1812-1884), president of the Dominican Republic for five terms
 * Buenaventura Bagaria (1882–1947), a Spanish sports shooter
 * Buenaventura Carlos Aribau (1798–1862), a Spanish economist, writer and politician
 * Buenaventura Cousiño Jorquera (1808–1855), a Chilean politician
 * Buenaventura de Abarzuza y Ferrer (1843–1910), a Spanish diplomat
 * Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), a Spanish anarchist and hero of the Spanish Civil War
 * Buenaventura Ferreira (born 1960), a Paraguayan footballer
 * Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola (1724–1777), a Spanish aristocrat and priest
 * Buenaventura García de Paredes (1866–1936), a Dominican priest
 * Buenaventura Marcó del Pont (1738–1818), a Spanish businessman
 * Buenaventura S. Medina Jr. (born 1928), a Filipino author
 * Buenaventura Rodriguez (1893–1940), Filipino playwright and politician
 * Buenaventura Sitjar (1739–1808), Franciscan missionary who served in California, U.S.
 * Buenaventura Villamayor (born 1967), a Filipino chess player
 * Rafael Buenaventura (1938–2006), a Filipino banker

Places

 * Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
 * Buenaventura, Cuba
 * Buenaventura, Camagüey, Cuba
 * Buenaventura Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
 * Buenaventura, Spain
 * Buenaventura Lakes, Florida, U.S.
 * Buenaventura Province, a former province of Gran Colombia

Other uses

 * Buenaventura, a 2016 album by La Santa Cecilia
 * "Buenaventura", a song by Paul van Dyk from the 2003 album Reflections
 * Buenaventura River (legend), a non-existent river once believed to run from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
 * USS Buena Ventura (ID-1335), or USS Buenaventura, a U.S. Navy cargo ship sunk in WW1
 * Buenaventura (mining company), a Peruvian mining company
 * Buenaventura Press, an American publisher and distributor of comics and graphic novels