Belén is the Spanish name for

Bethlehem Bethlehem (; ar, بيت لحم ; he, בֵּית לֶחֶם '' '') is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000,Amara, 1999p. 18.Brynen, 2000p. 202. and it is the capital o ...

. Belen, Belén or Beleń may also refer to:

Places

Argentina

Belén, Catamarca Belén is a small town in the province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the R ...

* Belén de Escobar, Buenos Aires Province

Bolivia

* Belén (Aroma), La Paz Department, Bolivia * Belén (Potosí), Bolivia

Colombia

* Belén, Boyacá * Belén, Nariño *

Belén de Andaquies Belén Andaquies is a town and municipality in Caquetá Department, Colombia. Climate Belén de Andaqies has a very wet tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical clim ...

, Caquetá * Belén de Bajirá, Antioquia * Belén de Umbría, Risaralda *Belén, Medellín, Antioquia.

Peru

Belén District, Maynas Belén District is one of thirteen districts of the Maynas Province in Peru. Belén (Spanish for Bethlehem) lies at the edge of the city of Iquitos, in the floodplain of the Itaya River. It is home to some 65,000 people, most of them poor, and ...

* Belén District, Sucre

Turkey

* Belen, Çanakkale * Belen, Ezine *

Belen, Hani Belen () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Hani, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Ira ...

Belen, Hatay Belen is a town and district of Hatay Province in the Mediterranean region of south-central Turkey. Etymology When describing his visit to the region in the 17th century, Evliya Çelebi mentioned that ''belen'' means ''slope'' in the Turkmen lang ...

, a town and district of Hatay Province * Belen, Kumluca, Antalya Province * Belen, Kıbrıscık, Bolu Province *

Belen, Tarsus Belen is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 546 (2022). It is situated in the Taurus Mountains. Its distance to Tarsus is and to Mersin is . The area around Belen was populated ...

, Mersin Province * Belen Pass

United States

* Belen, Mississippi * Belen, New Mexico ** Belen (Rail Runner station)

Elsewhere

* Belén, Chile * Belén (canton), Heredia, Costa Rica * Belén, Honduras * Belén, Rivas, Nicaragua *

Belén River The Belén River is a river in Panama. Discovery It was discovered by Christopher Columbus during his fourth—and last—voyage to the New World, following a two-year search for a passage to the Pacific Ocean and the Far East. In January 1503, ...

, Panama * Belén, Paraguay * Beleń, Poland * Belén, Uruguay

People

Given feminine name

* Belén Arjona (born 1981), Spanish singer * Belén Asensio (born 1976), Spanish taekwondo practitioner * Belén Esteban (born 1973), Spanish television personality * Belén Estévez (born 1981), Argentine dancer and vedette * Belén Fabra (born 1977), Spanish actress *

Belén Gache Belén Gache (Buenos Aires, 1960) is a Spanish-Argentinian novelist and experimental writer. Of Spanish and Gibraltarian descent, she was born in Buenos Aires. She lives in Madrid. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires where she was pro ...

(born 1960), Spanish-Argentinian writer * Belén Gopegui (born 1963), Spanish writer * Belén López (disambiguation) *

Belén Rodríguez María Belén Rodríguez Cozzani (, ; born 20 September 1984), better known as Belén Rodríguez or Belén, is an Argentine television personality, actress and model. Based in Milan since 2004, Rodríguez has hosted variety shows and appeared ...

(born 1984), Argentine showgirl, model, and actress * Belén Rueda (born 1965), Spanish actress * Belén Sánchez (born 1972), Spanish sprint canoer * Belén Scalella (born 1982), Argentine actress and singer * Belén Succi (born 1985), Argentine field hockey player

Surname

Ana Belén María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta (born 27 May 1951, Madrid), known professionally as Ana Belén, is a Spanish actress and singer. Life/career Born in 1951, Ana Belén is the oldest of three children. Her father was a cook in Hotel Palace, and ...

(born 1951), Spanish singer * Marta Belen (1942–2005), American opera singer

Education

Belen High School (Belen, New Mexico) Belén is the Spanish name for Bethlehem. Belen, Belén or Beleń may also refer to: Places Argentina * Belén, Catamarca * Belén de Escobar, Buenos Aires Province Bolivia * Belén (Aroma), La Paz Department, Bolivia * Belén (Potosí), Bo ...

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School Belen Jesuit Preparatory School is a private, Catholic, all-male, preparatory school run by the Antilles Province of the Society of Jesus in Tamiami, Page 1anPage 2/ref> unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, operated by the Society of J ...

, Miami, Florida * Instituto Técnico Militar, formerly Colegio de Belén, Havana, Cuba

Other uses

* Belén, a traditional

nativity scene In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( or ), or in Italian ''presepio'' or ''presepe'', or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects rep ...

common in the Philippines during the Christmas season *

Belén Fraga Belén Fraga is a fictional character from the Argentina, Argentine telenovela ''Chiquititas'', also known as ''Tiny Angels''. The character was portrayed by Romina Yan from 1995 to 1998 on television and on stage, as well as in the ''Chiquititas ...

, a fictional character in the Argentine telenovela ''Chiquititas'' *

Belen point The Belen point is an unfluted, lanceolate-shaped Paleoindian projectile point found in the central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. It is the second most prevalent Paleoindian point in the area after the Folsom point. It was named in the 1960s by ...

, a type of projectile point * A.D. Belén, a Costa Rican football club