San Buenaventura, Spanish for
Saint Bonaventure
Bonaventure ( ; it, Bonaventura ; la, Bonaventura de Balneoregio; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian Catholic Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.
The seventh Minister G ...
, a Roman Catholic saint, may refer to:
Places
Mexico
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San Buenaventura, Chihuahua
San Buenaventura (named for St. Bonaventure) is a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It serves as the municipal seat for the Buenaventura Municipality.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 6,957, down from 9,402 as of 2005. ...
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San Buenaventura, Coahuila
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San Buenaventura Municipality, Coahuila
San Buenaventura is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-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 th ...
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San Buenaventura, State of Mexico
Peru
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San Buenaventura District, Marañón
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San Buenaventura District, Canta
San Buenaventura District is one of seven districts of the province Canta in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática
The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informat ...
United States
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Ventura, California
Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura (Spanish for "Saint Bonaventure"), is a city on the Southern Coast of California and the county seat of Ventura County. The population was 110,763 at the 2020 census. Ventura is a popular tourist des ...
, the official name of which is San Buenaventura
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Mission San Buenaventura
Mission San Buenaventura ( es, Misión San Buenaventura), formally known as the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, is a Catholic parish and basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The parish church in the city of Ventura, California, Uni ...
, in Ventura
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San Buenaventura de Potano
San Buenaventura de Potano was a Spanish mission near Orange Lake in southern Alachua County or northern Marion County, Florida, located on the site where the town of Potano had been located when it was visited by Hernando de Soto in 1539. The Ric ...
, a 17th-century Spanish mission in Florida
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San Buenaventura de Guadalquini
San Buenaventura de Guadalquini or San Buenaventura de Boadalquivi was a Spanish mission located on St. Simon's Island, Georgia, United States from between 1597 and 1609 until 1684, when pirates burned the mission and its town. The mission moved t ...
, a 17th-century Spanish mission in Georgia
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Buenaventura River (legend) The non-existent Buenaventura River, alternatively San Buenaventura River or Río Buenaventura, was once believed to run from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic d ...
, a legendary river in the western United States
Elsewhere
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San Buenaventura, La Paz
San Buenaventura is a little town in northern Bolivia, on the west bank of Beni River, opposite the town Rurrenabaque on the east bank. The two towns are connected with a ferry.
The area is in the Amazon Basin, and San Buenaventura is the acce ...
, Bolivia
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San Buenaventura Municipality, La Paz
San Buenaventura Municipality is the second municipal section of the Abel Iturralde Province located in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Its seat is San Buenaventura
Languages
The languages spoken in the San Buenaventura Municipality are pr ...
, Bolivia
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San Buenaventura, Usulután
San Buenaventura is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered ...
, El Salvador
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San Buenaventura, Francisco Morazán
San Buenaventura is a municipality in the Honduran department of Francisco Morazán
José Francisco Morazán Quesada (; born October 3, 1792 – September 15, 1842) was a Central American politician who served as president of the Federal Re ...
, Honduras
* San Buenaventura, a barangay or ward in
San Pablo, Laguna
San Pablo, officially the City of San Pablo ( fil, Lungsod ng San Pablo), is a 1st class component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 285,348 people.
It is located in the southern ...
, Philippines
People with the surname
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Alonso de San Buenaventura
Alonso de San Buenaventura (died 1594, in Belmonte, Cuenca) was a Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary evangelist. He entered the Franciscan order at the convent of Our Lady of Loreto in Espartinas, Seville. After being ordained priest, he en ...
, 16th century Franciscan missionary to Paraguay
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Joy San Buenaventura (born 1959), Filipino-born American politician
See also
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Buenaventura (disambiguation)
Buenaventura (Spanish, 'good fortune', and the name of Saint Bonaventure) or Buena Ventura may refer to:
People
*Buenaventura Báez (1812-1884), president of the Dominican Republic for five terms
* Buenaventura Bagaria (1882–1947), a Spanish sp ...
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