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Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

word meaning ''refuge'', ''shelter'', or ''protection'', may refer to:

People

Amparo (name) Amparo is a Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish word that means refuge or shelter (and in a broader sense, protection). Several places in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America are named Amparo, some associated with Our ...

Amparo people Afro-Cubans or Black Cubans are Cubans of West African ancestry. The term ''Afro-Cuban'' can also refer to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community and the combining of native African and other cultural ele ...

, Afro-Cuban descendants of Angola

Places

Brazil

Amparo, São Paulo Amparo is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. The population is of 72,677 (2020 est.) in an area of 445 km². The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amparo. The cit ...

Amparo, Paraíba Amparo, Paraíba is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraíba This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraíba (PB), located in the Northeast Region o ...

Amparo do Serra Amparo da Serra (formerly called Amparo do Serra) is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), a ...

, Minas Gerais *

Amparo de São Francisco Amparo de São Francisco is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 2,380 (2020) and its area is 35 km².IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia ...

, Sergipe *

Santo Antônio do Amparo Santo Antônio do Amparo is a city in the southern part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The population is 18,613 (2020 est.) in an area of 488.89 km². The municipality was founded in 1938. Notable residents * Hélio Garcia, former Gove ...

, Minas Gerais

Other places

Amparo Museum The Museo Amparo, located in the historic center of Puebla City, is one of the most important historical museums in Mexico. It was inaugurated in 1991 and sponsored by the Amparo Foundation, which was founded in 1979 by Manuel Espinoza Yglesias in ...

, Puebla, Mexico *

Amparo High School Amparo High School (AHS) is a public secondary school located in Caloocan, Philippines. The school operates under the Division of City Schools, Caloocan, DepEd NCR. Amparo was established in 1979. An annex was constructed in 2005.

, Caloocan, Philippines

Other uses

Amparo (film) ''Amparo'' is a 2021 Colombian drama film directed by Simón Mesa Soto and starring Sandra Melissa Torres, Diego Alejandro Tobón, Luciana Gallego, John Jairo Montoya and Adriana Vergara. Before arriving in Colombian theaters, the film participated ...

, a 2022 Colombian drama film *

Massacre of El Amparo The Massacre of El Amparo was a massacre of 14 fishermen which took place near the village of El Amparo, in Venezuela's western state of Apure, on 29 October 1988. Amnesty International, 31 March 1993Venezuela: The Amparo Massacre: Four years on ...

, the killing of 14 fishermen in El Amparo, Venezuela in 1988 *'' Megachile amparo'', a bee of family Megachilidae *''

Recurso de amparo In most legal systems of the Spanish-speaking world, the writ of ("writ of protection"; also called , "appeal for protection", or , "judgement for protection") is a remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, found in certain jurisdicti ...

'' or writ of amparo, a form of constitutional relief found in the legal systems of some countries *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Amparo The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amparo ( la, Dioecesis Amparensis) is a diocese located in the city of Amparo in the Ecclesiastical province of Campinas in Brazil. History * December 23, 1997: Established as Diocese of Amparo from the Metropolita ...

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