Esperanza is the Spanish word for hope, and may refer to:

Places

Philippines

* Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, a municipality * Esperanza, Masbate, a municipality * Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat, 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, a town in Vieques * Esperanza (Jerusalem, New York), 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, a city in Argentina *

Esperanza, Belize Esperanza is a village located along the George Price Highway in Cayo District, Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, t ...

, 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), a village in Cuba * Esperanza, Dominican Republic, a municipality in Valverde province * La Esperanza, Ecuador, a town and parish *

La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango La Esperanza is a Municipalities of Guatemala, municipality in the Quetzaltenango Department, Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala. It covers an area of 15.9 km2 at an altitude of 2465 metres. This municipality was founded on April 7th 1910. ...

, 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, on the Canary Islands, Spain. The seat of the municipality is the town La Esperanza, in the mountainous interior of the island ...

, in the Canary Islands of Spain

People

* Esperanza (given name), 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 "hope ...

, 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. Esperanza Unida, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Milwaukee that represents Latino workers in workers' and unemployment compensation hearings. The organization's mission is to provide un- and underemployed individuals with training for ...

, a non-profit organization that provides job training and placement to unemployed minority workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States *

Esperanza International Esperanza International is a Christian-based not-for-profit organization that is devoted to helping poverty-stricken people of the Dominican Republic through finance, education, health, and spiritual programs. It is classified as a 501(c)(3) non ...

, a non-profit organization that develops Dominican Republican communities through microfinancing

Other uses

* MV ''Esperanza'', a 1984 Greenpeace ship *

Esperanza (Madrid Metro) Esperanza is a metro station on Line 4 of the Madrid Metro The Madrid Metro (Spanish: ''Metro de Madrid'') is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the ...

, 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, found in Crater of Diamonds State Park