Mariposa

Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. It may also refer to:

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
 * USCGC Mariposa (WLB-397), a USCG seagoing buoy tender

Entertainment

 * Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
 * La Mariposa, a 1998 novel by Francisco Jiménez (writer)

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" 2022 single released by the Spanish singer Aitana with Sangiovanni
 * "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 on 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 on Not So Far Away
 * "Mariposas", a 2010 song by Shakira on Sale el Sol
 * "Mariposas", a 2011 song by Belanova on Sueño Electro II
 * "Dirty Mariposa", a 2022 song by Parov Stelar from the album "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
 * Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)
 * Mariposa, a 2020 Indonesian film
 * Mariposa (programming language), a programming language with constructs sensitive to time