# Cuevas

Cuevas or Cueva (Spanish for "cave(s)") may refer to:

## Places

* Cueva de Ágreda, a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain
* Cuevas Bajas, a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain
* Cuevas de Almudén, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain
* Cuevas del Almanzora, a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain
* Cuevas del Becerro, a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain
* Cuevas del Valle, a municipality in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
* Cuevas de Provanco, a municipality in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain
* Cuevas de San Clemente, a municipality in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain
* Cuevas de San Marcos, a town and municipality in the province of Málaga
* Cuevas de Vera, a town in south-eastern Spain, on the right bank of the river Almanzora
* Cuevas Labradas, a town in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain

## Caves

* Cueva de La Pasiega, a cave in the Spanish municipality of Puente Viesgo
* Cueva de las Manos, a cave in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
* Cueva de los Casares, a cave in Guadalajara, Spain
* La Cueva del Indio, a cave in Puerto Rico, site of petroglyphs
* Cueva de los Verdes, a cave in the Canary Islands
* Cuevas de El Castillo or the Cave of El Castillo, an archaeological site within the complex of the Caverns of Monte Castillo
* Cuevas de Sorbas, limestone caves in Sorbas, Almeria, Spain

## Other uses

* Cueva people, an extinct indigenous people exterminated in the 16th century
* La Cueva High School, a public high school located in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico
* Salamanca, cave that appears in numerous Hispanic American legends.

## People with the surname
### Athletes

* Casandra Cuevas
* Christian Cueva, Peruvian football (soccer) player
* José "Pipino" Cuevas, Mexican boxer
* Juan Cuevas, an Argentinian football (soccer) forward
* Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan football (soccer) player
* Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
* William Cuevas, Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher

### Artists

* Aida Cuevas, Mexican ranchera singer
* Carlos Cuevas, Spanish actor
* George de Cuevas, Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer
* José Luis Cuevas, Mexican painter and sculptor
* Juan Martín Cueva, Ecuadorian documentary film director
* Juan de la Cueva, Spanish dramatist and poet
* Beto Cuevas, the former lead singer of the now-defunct Chilean rock band, La Ley
* Manuel Cuevas, a costume designer for Rock and Roll and Country and Western singers
* Minerva Cuevas, a Mexican conceptual artist
* Patricio Cueva Jaramillo, Ecuadorian painter and journalist
* Sal Cuevas, bassist for Ray Barreto and the Fania All-Stars
* Sofía Cancino de Cuevas (1897–1982), Mexican composer, pianist, opera promoter, singer and symphonic conductor

### Politicians

* Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish diplomat and bishop
* Nora Cuevas (born 1959), Chilean public politician
* Carlos Cueva Tamaríz, Ecuadorian politician, lawyer and professor
* Fernando Cordero Cueva, Ecuadorian politician and architect
* Gabriela Cuevas Barron, Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN)
* Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese-born Sephardi gobernador of Nuevo León
* Arlene Stringer-Cuevas (1933-2020), American politician

### Other

* Altamiro de la Cueva, fictional character in a Spanish comic
* Andres Cuevas, Australian engineer
* Elvira Cuevas, Puerto Rican ecologist
* María Luisa Cuevas Rodríguez, Spanish chess master