''Calavera'' (Spanish for ''skull'') or its plural ''calaveras'', may refer to:
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Calavera
A calavera (Spanish language, Spanish – for "skull") is a representation of a human skull. The term is most often applied to edible or decorative skulls made (usually by hand) from either sugar (called Alfeñiques) or clay, used in the Mexican ...
s, any of various skull-shaped things associated with the
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Literary Calavera
The Literary Calavera or ''calavera literaria'' (Spanish: ''literary skull'') is a traditional Mexican literary form: a satirical or light-hearted writing in verse, often composed for the Day of the Dead.
History
Initially known as panteones ...
, traditional Mexican composition in verse
Places
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Calaveras River
The Calaveras River is a river in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
It flows roughly southwest for from the confluence of its north and south forks in Calaveras County to its confluence with the San Joaquin River in the city of Stockt ...
, in the Central Valley of California, USA
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Calaveras Creek (California)
Calaveras Creek is a northward-flowing stream in Alameda and Santa Clara counties of California. It runs for , starting from Poverty Ridge, passing through Calaveras Reservoir, and emptying into Alameda Creek east of Fremont, California.
Its m ...
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Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County (), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,292. The county seat is San Andreas. Angels C ...
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Rancho Calaveras, California
Rancho Calaveras is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 5,325 at the 2010 census, up from 4,182 at the 2000 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has ...
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Calaveras Dome
Calaveras Dome is a Granite dome
Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface. Generally, domical features such as these are known as bornhardts. Bornhardts can form in any type of pluto ...
, California, USA; a granite dome
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Cerro de la Calavera ( en, Mount Calavera), Carlsbad, California, USA
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Calaveras Unified School District
Calaveras Unified School District is a public school district based in Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County (), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of Ca ...
, Calaveras County, California, USA
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Calaveras Fault
The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Activity on the different segments of the fault includes moderate and large earthquakes as well as aseismi ...
, a geological fault in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
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Calaveras Valley Calaveras Valley is a valley east of Milpitas, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has formed primarily as a result of the actions of the Calaveras Fault. The southern end of the Calaveras Valley is a few miles south of Calaveras Reservoir ...
, California, USA
* La Calavera Historical Neighborhood,
Smeltertown, Texas, USA
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Calaveras, Texas, USA; a small town near San Antonio
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Calaveras Creek, Texas, USA
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Calaveras Lake (Texas), USA
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Isla Calavera
Isla Calavera, or the Skull, is an island in the Gulf of California, located within Bahía de los Ángeles east of the Baja California Peninsula. The island is uninhabited and is part of the Ensenada Municipality. It is named skull due to a coveri ...
, an island in the Gulf of California
Facilities and structures
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Calaveras Power Station
The Calaveras Power Station is a series of power plants located southeast of San Antonio, in Bexar County, Texas near Calaveras Lake. These plants include the J.T. Deely Power Plant, the O.W. Sommers Power Plant, and the J.K. Spruce Power Plant. ...
, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Calaveras Reservoir
Calaveras Reservoir is located primarily in Santa Clara County, California, with a small portion and its dam in Alameda County, California. In Spanish, Calaveras means "skulls".
The reservoir is fed mainly by Arroyo Hondo and Calaveras Cree ...
, California, USA
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Calaveras County Airport, Calaveras County, California, USA
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Calaveras station, BART, Silicon Valley, California, USA
People
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Jordi Calavera
Jordi Calavera Espinach (born 2 August 1995) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a right back.
Club career
Born in Cabra del Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Calavera finished his youth formation with Gimnàstic de Tarragona, and was called up to ...
(born 1995) Spanish soccer player
* ''Calavera II'', a former ring name for pro-wrestler luchador Jesús Javier Hernández Silva (1971–1993) aka
Oro (wrestler)
Jesús Javier Hernández Silva (December 24, 1971 – October 26, 1993) was a Mexican professional wrestler known under the ring name Oro (''Gold''), a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler. Hernández died in 1993 as ...
Fictional characters
* Calaveras, a member of the
Black Moon Clan
The is a group of fictional characters in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series by Naoko Takeuchi. It comprises the main villains of the second major story arc, which is called the ''Black Moon'' in the manga and ''Sailor Moon Crystal'', and which fil ...
, the primary villains in the ''Sailor Moon R'' manga and anime series
* Calaveras, the
subordinates of the Arrancar Rudobone in the ''Bleach'' manga and anime series
* Francisca Calavera, titular character of the comic
''Calavera'' (comics)
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Manuel Calavera
''Grim Fandango'' is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use 3D computer graphics overlaid on pre-rendered static backgrou ...
, the protagonist in the LucasArts 1998 adventure game, ''Grim Fandango''
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Maria Calvera, a character from RWBY
* Robi Calavera, titular character of the animated series ''
The Swashbuckling Adventures of Capitán Calavera
Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Austin, Texas. It was founded in April 2001 with a subsidiary called Powerhouse Animation LLC, established in summer of 2014. The company develops and produces tradition ...
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El Calavera
''El Calavera'' is a 1954 Argentinian film.
Directed by Carlos F. Borcosque, script by Emilio Villalba Welsh and Wilfredo Jimenez, based on Maurice Hennequin's and Pierre Veber's theater play ''Las delicias del hogar'' (''Les Joies du foyer''). ...
'' (film), 1954 Argentinian film
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''Calavera'' (album), a 2001 album by 'Fiskales Ad-Hok'
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''Calavera'' (comics), an adult comic featuring a female assassin with razor claws named Francisca Calavera
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Trío Calaveras
Trío Calaveras is a Mexican guitar and vocal trio, notable for its performances and recordings with the pop singer Jorge Negrete.
History
''Calaveras'', in Spanish, means "skulls".
The original members of the trio in the 1930s were Guillermo ...
, a Mexican musical trio
See also
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Siro calaveras
''Siro calaveras'' is a species of mite harvestman in the family Sironidae
The Sironidae are a family of harvestmen with more than 30 described species.
The family shows a Laurasian distribution, with most species found in temperate Europe a ...
(''S. calaveras'') a species of mite harvestman
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its orig ...
", a short story by Mark Twain
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Calavera Hills School
Carlsbad is a coastal city in the North County region of San Diego County, California, United States. The city is south of downtown Los Angeles and north of downtown San Diego. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 114,746. ...
, Carlsbad, California, USA
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Calaveras Hills High School
Calaveras Hills High School (CHHS) is one of the two high schools of Milpitas, California. Calaveras Hills High School works with students who need an alternative form of education. Calaveras Hills High is referred to as "Cal Hills" by stu ...
, Milpitas, California, USA
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Calaveras Skull
The Calaveras Skull (also known as The Pliocene Skull) was a human skull found by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was purported to prove that humans were in North America as early as the Pliocene, and used to support the idea the h ...
, a human skull discovered in Calaveras County
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Calaverite
Calaverite, or gold telluride, is an uncommon telluride of gold, a metallic mineral with the chemical formula AuTe2, with approximately 3% of the gold replaced by silver. It was first discovered in Calaveras County, California in 1861, and was ...
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Calaveras Big Trees (disambiguation)
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Calaveras Lake (disambiguation)
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Skull (disambiguation)
The skull is the bony structure in the head of a craniate.
Skull or Skulls may also refer to:
Places
* Skull Lake, British Columbia, Canada
* Skull Creek (disambiguation)
* 2015 TB145, a celestial object that passed Earth in 2015, known as the ...
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