# Mariposa

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
* USCGC Mariposa, 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)

## 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