Mariposa is the Spanish word for

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

. It may also refer to:

Geography

Canada

* Mariposa, Ontario, former municipality of the southwest corner of Victoria County * Mariposa, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality * Mariposa (fictional town), a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock, modelled on Orillia, Ontario

Peru

* Mariposa, Satipo Province, capital of the Pampa Hermosa District in Peru

United States

Mariposa County, California Mariposa County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 17,131. The county seat is Mariposa. It is located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, north of Fresn ...

, a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range *

Mariposa, California Mariposa (; Spanish for "Butterfly") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 1,526 at the 2020 census. Named for the monarch butt ...

, seat of the county in California * Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska * Mariposa, a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, New Mexico * Mariposa station (Los Angeles Metro) * Mariposa station (San Francisco) *

Mariposa Grove Mariposa Grove is a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, United States, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. It is the largest grove of giant sequoias in the park, with several hundred mature specimens. Two of its trees ...

, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park

Sea vessels

* SS ''Mariposa'' (1883), iron ship of the Oceanic Steamship Company which provided service between San Francisco and other Pacific ports * SS ''Mariposa'' (1931), Matson Lines ocean liner; renamed SS ''Homeric'' in 1953 * SS ''Mariposa'' (1953), originally built as the cargo ship ''Pine Tree Mariner'' * , a USCG seagoing buoy tender

Entertainment

* ''Mariposa'' (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear * La Mariposa (''Dead or Alive''), a character in the video game series ''Dead or Alive'' * ''La Mariposa'', a 1998 novel by Francisco Jiménez (writer) * '' Barbie Mariposa'', a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)

People and history

Mariposa War The Mariposa War (December 1850 – June 1851), also known as the Yosemite Indian War, was a conflict between the United States and the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous people of California's Sierra Nevada in the 1850s. The war wa ...

, a war between Native Americans and miners in California that lasted from May 1850 until June 1851 * Las Mariposas, nickname for the Mirabal sisters, Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo *

Mariposa Battalion Mariposa Battalion was a California Militia unit formed in 1851 to defeat the Ahwahnechee and Chowchillas in the Mariposa War, a part of the California genocide. After a force under Mariposa County Sheriff James Burney was found unequal to the ...

, a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokuts people in the Mariposa War

Music

Mariposa Folk Festival Mariposa Folk Festival is a Canadian music festival founded in 1961 in Orillia, Ontario. It was held in Orillia for three years before being banned because of disturbances by festival-goers. After being held in various places in Ontario for a fe ...

, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada

Albums

* ''Mariposa'' (album), a 2015 album by Lodovica Comello * ''Mariposa'', a 1998 album by

Jennifer Peña Jennifer Marcella Peña (born September 17, 1983) is a Grammy Awards and Latin Grammy Awards nominated Mexican American Tejano/Latin pop singer known as "The Princess of Tejano". Peña reached a milestone in her career of over 10 million record ...

* Mariposa, a 1992 album by Rein Sanction

Songs

* " Mariposas" 2022

single Single may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Single (music), a song release Songs * "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004 * "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008 * "Single" (William Wei song), 2016 * "Single", by ...

released by the Spanish singer Aitana with

Sangiovanni Giovanni Pietro Damian (born Vicenza, 9 January 2003), known professionally as Sangiovanni, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Biography Early Years Born in 2003 in Vicenza and raised in Grumolo delle Abbadesse, Giovanni Pietro Damian is th ...

* "Mariposa" (song), a 2019 song by Peach Tree Rascals * "La Mariposa", classical guitar composition by

Francisco Tárrega Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 185215 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as '' Capricho Árabe'' and '' Recuerdos de la Alhambra''. Biography ...

(1852–1909) * "Mariposa", a 1981 song by Freeez on '' Southern Freeez'' * "Mariposa", a 2000 song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from ''

El viaje de Copperpot ''El viaje de Copperpot'' (''Copperpot's Voyage'') is Spanish pop rock band La Oreja de Van Gogh's second studio album, issued by Epic Records on 11 September 2000. It was the band's first album to feature a bonus track. ''El viaje de Copperpot'' ...

'' * "Mariposa", a 2003 song by Sugarfree * "Mariposa", a 2005 song by Wideawake on '' Not So Far Away'' * "Mariposas", a 2010 song by Shakira on ''

Sale el Sol ''Sale el Sol'' (, ) is the ninth studio album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, released on 19 October 2010, by Epic Records. The album marks a return to Shakira's signature Latin pop sound after the electropop record ''She Wolf'' (2009) ...

'' * "Mariposas", a 2011 song by Belanova on ''

Sueño Electro II ''Sueño Electro II'' (Electro Dream ll) is the fifth studio album from the Mexican Pop music, Pop band Belanova, and is the second half of the Belanova#Sueño Electro, Sueño Electro project. The album was recorded simultaneously with the fourth ...

'' * "Dirty Mariposa", a 2022 song by

Parov Stelar Marcus Füreder (born 27 November 1974), better known by his stage name Parov Stelar, is an Austrian musician, producer, composer and DJ. He is considered a pioneer of Electro swing and is one of the most internationally successful artists ...

from the album "Moonlight Love Affair"

Artists

*Mariposa, a pseudonym of Madeline Johnston

Other

Mariposa botnet The Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008, is a botnet mainly involved in Confidence trick, cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks. Before the botnet itself was dismantled on 23 December 2009, it consisted of up to 12 million unique IP add ...

, a botnet involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks * Mariposa lily, a bulbous plant species of the genus ''Calochortus''; native to western North America * Mariposa School of Skating, a Canadian figure-skating training center *

Moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

, a flying insect related to the butterfly * Mariposa (wrestler), American professional wrestler * '' Mariposa'', a 2020 Indonesian film