Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to:

Geography

Islands

* Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, a pirate stronghold in the 17th-century *

Tortugas Banks The Tortugas Banks are coral reefs that developed on a foundation of Pleistocene karst limestone at depths of 20 to 40 m. The banks are extensive with low coral diversity, but high coral cover. The most conspicuous coral is Montastraea cavernosa, ...

, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary * Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States * Dry Tortugas National Park, a national park consisting of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas * Isla Tortuga, a volcanic island in the Gulf of California, part of Baja California, Mexico *

La Tortuga Island La Tortuga Island (; "La Tortuga" means "the turtle") is an uninhabited island of Venezuela, the largest in the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is part of a group of islands that include the Tortuguillos and Cayo Herradura. Isla La Tortu ...

, an uninhabited 156 km² island in the Caribbean Sea that is a federal dependency of Venezuela * Las Tortugas, name given by Christopher Columbus to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac

Places

Freeport Tortuga {{Unreferenced, date=December 2019 Freeport Tortuga was a free port project by Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas, which began construction in 1971 based upon a 99-year contract with the government of Haiti. The location of the freeport was the old bucc ...

, a free port project on Tortuga, Haiti, during the early 1970s *

Tortuga Bay Tortuga Bay is located on the Santa Cruz Island, about a 20-minute water-taxi ride from the main water taxi dock in Puerto Ayora. There is also a walking path, which is and is open from six in the morning to six in the evening. Visitors must sign ...

, a bay on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos * Tortuga, Nicaragra, Small town in southern pacific Region

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

* Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003)

Television

* Tortuga (''Breaking Bad''), a fictional drug dealer in the AMC-TV drama, ''Breaking Bad'' * Tortuga, a fictional aircraft in the children's television show ''

Wild Kratts ''Wild Kratts'' is a live action/Flash-animated educational children's television series created by the Kratt brothers, Chris and Martin. The Kratt Brothers Company and 9 Story Media Group produce the show, which is presented by PBS Kids in the ...

Games

* '' Tortuga: Pirates of the New World'', a computer game set in the ''Golden Age of Piracy'' era * An island in the ''

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'' game Assassin's Creed Black Flag. * An island in '' Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City'', a

turn-based role-playing game In Video game, video games and other games, the passage of time must be handled in a way that players find fair and easy to understand. This is usually done in one of the two ways: real-time and turn-based. Real-time Real-time games have game ...

published for the

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. * '' Tortuga: A Pirate's Tale'', a turn-based ship combat strategy game set in the Caribbean published for the Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PlayStation 5.

Literature

* ''Tortuga'', a novel by Rudolfo Anaya * ''Far Tortuga'', a 1975 novel by Peter Matthiessen

Sports

Coliseo La Tortuga Coliseo La Tortuga is an indoor sporting arena located in Talcahuano, Chile. The capacity of the arena is 10,000 spectators and it is used mostly for basketball. El Coliseo La Tortuga Monumental, known popularly as La Tortuga de Talcahuano, i ...

, an indoor sporting arena in Talcahuano, Chile * Daytona Tortugas, a Class A-Advanced minor league baseball team in the

Florida State League The Florida State League (FSL) is a Minor League Baseball league based in the state of Florida. Having been classified at various levels throughout its existence, it operated at Class A-Advanced from 1990 until its demotion to Single-A following ...

Transportation

Tortuga (vehicle) The Tortuga (Spanish for ''Turtle'') was an armored vehicle designed and built in Venezuela in 1934, during the rule of Juan Vicente Gómez. It was assembled at the Puerto Cabello shipyard by Engineer Tomás Pacanins. First displayed at a milit ...

, a Venezuelan armored vehicle * , later called SS ''Tortuga'', a turbo-electric liner * , a ''Casa Grande''-class dock landing ship commissioned in 1945, in action during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and decommissioned in 1970 * , a ''Whidbey Island''-class dock landing ship commissioned in 1990 and on active service as of 2012

Other uses

* Tortuga (cocktail), a non-alcoholic cocktail beverage *

Tortuga (software) {{unreferenced, date=January 2023 Tortuga is a software framework for discrete event simulation in Java. A Tortuga simulation can be written either as interacting processes or as scheduled events. A Tortuga simulation can have thousands of entitie ...

, a software framework for discrete event simulation {{disambiguation, geo, ship