Escalante may refer to:

People

Amat Escalante Amat Escalante (born 28 February 1979) is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. He is most well known for directing the controversial Mexican crime thriller ''Heli'' for which he was awarded the best director prize award at the 201 ...

(born 1979), Mexican filmmaker *

Bernardino de Escalante Bernardino de Escalante (ca. 1537– after 1605) was a Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and a prolific writer. He is best known as the author of the second book on China that was published in Europe, and the first author of such a book to o ...

(born 1537), 16th-century Spanish writer, author of one of the first European books on China *

Enrique Escalante Enrique Escalante (born August 6, 1984) is a volleyball player from Puerto Rico, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in sixth place at the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan. In the same year the middle-blocker won the silv ...

(born 1984), Puerto Rican volleyball player *

Francis García Escalante Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome * Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places * Rural ...

, Mexican transvestite who has become a famous actor *

Gonzalo Escalante Gonzalo Escalante (born 27 March 1993) is an Argentine professional association football, footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Cádiz CF, Cádiz. Career Early career Born in Bella Vista, Buenos Aires, Escalante finish ...

(born 1993), Argentine footballer *

Jaime Escalante Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 19 ...

(1930–2010), Bolivian former mathematics teacher *

Joe Escalante Joseph Patrick Escalante (born January 30, 1963) is an American television writer, film and television director, musician, radio host, and former television executive. He is known professionally as the bassist and songwriter for the punk rock ...

(born 1963), American musician *

Jorge Volpi Jorge Volpi (full name Jorge Volpi Escalante, born July 10, 1968) is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as ''In Search of Klingsor ( En busca de Klingsor)''. Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s wi ...

(born 1968), Mexican writer *

José Escalante José Alberto Escalante Rápalo (born 29 May 1995) is a Honduran footballer who plays as a midfielder for Honduran Liga Nacional club Motagua, on loan from Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC. Club career Olimpia Escalante began his care ...

(born 1995), Honduran footballer *

Silvestre Vélez de Escalante Silvestre is a Spanish and Portuguese given name or surname, or a French surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Cindy Silvestre (born 1993), a French kickboxer * Franck Silvestre (born 1967), a retired French footballer *Israel ...

, Spanish padre and explorer in North America

Places

United States

*'' The Escalante'', a hotel in Ash Fork, Arizona *

Escalante, Utah Escalante () is a city in central Garfield County, Utah, United States, located along Utah Scenic Byway 12 (SR-12) in the south-central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, 797 people were living in the city. The city is named after Silv ...

Escalante Butte Escalante Butte is a prominence adjacent the far eastern South Rim of the Grand Canyon, of Northern Arizona. Adjacent east is a lower elevation butte, Cardenas Butte. Both buttes, (and the South Rim), are part of the western drainage of north- ...

, of Eastern Grand Canyon *

Escalante Desert The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in southwestern Utah. Geography The Escalante Desert is northwest of Cedar City in Iron County, Utah, and ext ...

, Utah *

Escalante River The Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River. It is formed by the confluence of Upper Valley and Birch Creeks near the town of Escalante in south-central Utah, and from there flows southeast for approximately before joining Lake P ...

, Utah *

Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument The Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is a United States national monument protecting the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante ( Escalante River) in southern Utah. It was established in ...

, Utah **

Escalante National Monument Escalante National Monument was proposed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes in the 1930s as a unit of the U.S. National Park Service in the canyonlands of south central Utah. Centering on the canyons of the Escalante River, the proposed mo ...

, Utah

Elsewhere

Escalante Department Escalante Department is a department of Chubut Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 143,000 inhabitants in an area of 14,015 km², and its capital city is Comodoro Rivadavia. The department is named ...

, an administrative district in Argentina *

Escalante (El Apagado) Volcán Escalante also known as "El Apagado" is a stratovolcano on the Chilean side of the border between Bolivia and Chile. It lies immediately SE of Cerro Colorado and SW to volcán Curiquinca, all of which are considered to be part of the ...

, a volcano in Chile *

Escalante, Negros Occidental Escalante, officially the City of Escalante ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Escalante; hil, Dakbanwa sang Escalante; fil, Lungsod ng Escalante), is a 4th class component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, i ...

, Philippines *

Escalante, Cantabria Escalante is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2007 census, the city has a population of 749 inhabitants. See also * Bernardino de Escalante (who was from the nearby Laredo, Cantabria Lar ...

, Spain *

Escalante River (Venezuela) The Escalante River ( es, Rio Escalante) is a river of Venezuela. It drains into Lake Maracaibo. The river rises in the Venezuelan Andes. It then flows through the Maracaibo dry forests ecoregion before emptying into Lake Maracaibo. See also *Li ...

5095 Escalante 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

, an asteroid *

Escalante (Martian crater) Escalante Crater is an impact crater in the Amenthes quadrangle of Mars. It is located at 0.2° N and 244.7° W. It is in diameter, and was named after Mexican astronomer (c. 1930) . Wikiescalante.jpg, CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orb ...

, a crater on Mars

Other uses

Escalante massacre The Escalante massacre was an incident on September 20, 1985, in Escalante, Negros Occidental, Philippines, where government paramilitary forces gunned down civilians engaged in a rally in commemoration of the 13th anniversary of the declaration ...

, 1985 in Escalante City, Negros Occidental, Philippines *

Escalante syndrome Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic disorder characterized by mild-to-moderate intellectual disability. The average IQ in males with FXS is under 55, while about two thirds of affected females are intellectually disabled. Physical features may ...

or Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic disorder {{disambiguation, geo, surname