Esperanza is the

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word for hope, and may refer to:

Places

Philippines

Esperanza, Agusan del Sur Esperanza, officially the Municipality of Esperanza ( ceb, Lungsod sa Esperanza; tgl, Bayan ng Esperanza), is a 1st class municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines. Accordin ...

, a municipality *

Esperanza, Masbate Esperanza, officially the Municipality of Esperanza, is a 5th class municipality in the province of Masbate, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,534 people. About 60% of the population lives along the coastline ...

, a municipality *

Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat Esperanza, officially the Municipality of Esperanza ( hil, Banwa sang Esperanza; tl, Bayan ng Esperanza Maguindanaon: ''Inged nu Ispiransa'', Jawi: ايڠايد نو اسڤيرنسا), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Sultan Kud ...

, a municipality

United States

Esperanza, Mississippi Hurricane is an unincorporated community in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States. It was originally called Esperanza, but the name changed due to being impacted by several severe storms. History The Esperanza Post Office was established i ...

, an unincorporated community * Esperanza, New York, historic name of the village of Athens * Esperanza, Hudspeth County, Texas, an unincorporated community *

Esperanza, Montgomery County, Texas Esperanza is a ghost town in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. Esperanza was located on U.S. Highway 75 near Interstate 45 north of Willis. History Around 1879, William Spiller, the proprietor of a nearby tobacco farm, founded Esperanz ...

, a ghost town *

Esperanza, Puerto Rico Esperanza is a ''comunidad'' in Puerto Real Barrio, on the south side of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. It was the location of Hacienda Casa del Frances, a historic site listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Climate D ...

, a town in Vieques *

Esperanza (Jerusalem, New York) Esperanza, also known as John Rose House, is a historic home located at Jerusalem in Yates County, New York. It is a Greek Revival style structure with a -story, side-gabled main block and a -story, side-gabled west wing. It was built in 1838 an ...

, an historic home in Jerusalem, New York

Other

Esperanza Base ("Permanence, an act of sacrifice") , pushpin_map = Antarctica , pushpin_map_alt = Location of Esperanza Base in Antarctica , pushpin_map_caption = Location of Esperanza Base in Antarctica , pushpin_mapsize ...

, a settlement in Antarctica *

Esperanza, Santa Fe Esperanza is a city in the center of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It had about 36,000 inhabitants at the and it is the head town of the Las Colonias Department. Esperanza is at the heart of the most important dairy district of the countr ...

, a city in Argentina * Esperanza, Belize, a village in Cayo District, Belize *

La Esperanza, Norte de Santander La Esperanza () is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North Santander North Santander (Spanish: Norte de Santander) () is a department of Northeastern Colombia. It is in the north of the country, bordering Venezu ...

, Colombia, a municipality and town *

Esperanza (Ranchuelo) Esperanza ( Spanish for "Hope"), also known as ''La Esperanza'', is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Ranchuelo, in Villa Clara Province. With a 2011 population of 11,555 it is the mos ...

, a village in Cuba *

Esperanza, Dominican Republic Esperanza is a municipality (''municipio'') of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there are four municipal districts (''distritos municipal''): Boca de Mao, Jicomé, Maizal and Paradero. As of the 2002 c ...

, a municipality in Valverde province *

La Esperanza, Ecuador La Esperanza (the name is Spanish for "hope") is a town and parish in northern Ecuador in Imbabura Province, Ibarra Canton. It lies at the north-eastern foot of Mount Imbabura volcano about in straight line distance south of the city of Ibarr ...

, a town and parish *

La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango La Esperanza is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department Quetzaltenango is a department in the western highlands of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Quetzaltenango, the second largest city in Guatemala.Rouanet et al 1992, p.14. The ...

, Guatemala, a municipality *

La Esperanza, Honduras La Esperanza () is the capital city and a municipality of the same name of the department of Intibucá, Honduras. La Esperanza is famous for having the coolest climate in Honduras. It is considered the heart of the ''Ruta Lenca'' (Lenca Trail) ...

, a city and municipality in Intibucá Department *

Esperanza (municipality) Esperanza Municipality is a municipality in Puebla in south-eastern Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United St ...

, a town and municipality in Puebla, Mexico *

Esperanza, Ucayali Esperanza also known as Puerto Esperanza is a town in Peru, capital of Purús Province in Ucayali Region Ucayali () is an inland department and region of Peru. Located in the Amazon rainforest, its name is derived from the Ucayali River. Its c ...

, a city in Peru * La Esperanza, the seat of the municipality of

El Rosario, Tenerife El Rosario is a municipality in the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, on the Canary Islands, Spain. The seat of the municipality is the town La Esperanza, in the m ...

, in the Canary Islands of Spain

People

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, a Spanish feminine given name *

Gabriel Esperanza Gabriel Esperanssa, also spelled Esperanza or Esperança, was a 17th-century rabbi at Safed. He was originally from Salonika, where he was a disciple of Daniel Estrumsa. He apparently assumed the name of a woman called Esperanssa (Spanish for "hop ...

, 17th-century rabbi

Film and TV

* ''Esperanza'' (film), a 1946 Mexican film * ''Esperanza'' (Philippine TV series) * ''Esperanza'' (Chilean TV series), a 2011 telenovela

Music

* Esperanza, a flamenco project by

Carlos Villalobos Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes modern orchestral music for trailers, television sh ...

Albums

* ''Esperanza'' (Michael Rother album), 1996 * ''Esperanza'' (Esperanza Spalding album), 2008 * '' Próxima Estación: Esperanza'', a 2001 album by Manu Chao

Songs

* "Esperanza" (Charles Aznavour song), 1961 * "Esperanza" (Enrique Iglesias song), 1998

Organizations

* Esperanza Unida, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides job training and placement to unemployed minority workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States * Esperanza International, a non-profit organization that develops Dominican Republican communities through microfinancing

Other uses

* MV ''Esperanza'', a 1984 Greenpeace ship * Esperanza (Madrid Metro), a station of the Madrid Metro * ''Esperanza'' (bug), a genus of bugs * ''

Tecoma stans ''Tecoma stans'' is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush, yellow bells, yellow elder, ginger-thomas. ''Tecoma stans'' is the off ...

'', a yellow flower sometimes called ''esperanza'' *

Esperanza High School Esperanza High School (EHS) is a public high school located in Anaheim, California and is part of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. It is a California Distinguished School and is home to various California Interscholastic Feder ...

, Anaheim, California, United States * Esperanza Drum and Bugle Corps, a modern drum corps from San Diego, California, United States * Esperanza Ortega, the title character of ''

Esperanza Rising ''Esperanza Rising'' is a young adult historical fiction novel written by Mexican-American author Pam Muñoz Ryan and released by Scholastic Publishing on 27 March 2000. The novel focuses on Esperanza, the only daughter of wealthy Mexican paren ...

'', a 2000 novel * La Esperanza Airport, Nicaragua *

Esperanza Diamond Crater of Diamonds State Park is a Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2 ha) plowed field, the world's only diamond-bearing site accessible to the public. Diamonds have continuou ...

, found in Crater of Diamonds State Park