Tortuga is the Spanish word for a

turtle Turtles are reptiles of the order (biology), order Testudines, characterized by a special turtle shell, shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Crypt ...

tortoise Tortoises ( ) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like o ...

. It may also refer to:

Geography

* Tortugas, Argentina, a town in Santa Fe Province, Argentina *

Tortuga (Haiti) Tortuga Island (, ; ; , , 'Turtle Island') is a West Indian island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola. It constitutes the ''commune'' of Île de la Tortue in the Port-de-Paix arrondissement of the Nord-Ouest depar ...

, a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti * Tortugas Banks, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary * Tortuga Bay, a bay on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos * Tortuga Island (disambiguation) *

Dry Tortugas Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park of the United States located about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most iso ...

, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States *

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

Art, entertainment, and media

* Tortuga (''Breaking Bad''), a fictional drug dealer in the AMC-TV drama, ''Breaking Bad'' * '' Tortuga: Pirates of the New World'', a computer game set in the ''Golden Age of Piracy'' era * Tortuga, a fictional aircraft in the children's television show '' Wild Kratts'' * Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003) * ''Tortuga'', a novel by

Rudolfo Anaya Rudolfo Anaya (October 30, 1937June 28, 2020) was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel '' Bless Me, Ultima'', Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano and New Mexican literature. The themes and cult ...

* "Tortuga", a single by Alestorm from their 2020 album ''

Curse of the Crystal Coconut ''Curse of the Crystal Coconut'' is the sixth studio album by Scottish heavy metal band Alestorm. It was released on 29 May 2020 via Napalm Records. The album was recorded at Krabi Road, Thailand with the band's long-time producer Lasse Lammer ...

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 Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players ...

, an indoor sporting arena in Talcahuano, Chile *

Daytona Tortugas The Daytona Tortugas are a Minor League Baseball team of the Florida State League and the Minor League Baseball#Single-A, Single-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. They are located in Daytona Beach, Florida, and play their home games at Jackie R ...

, a Class A-Advanced minor league baseball team in the Florida State League

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 milita ...

, 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 Tortuga cocktail is a non-alcoholic beverage named for the Haitian island Tortuga of northern Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of ...

, a non-alcoholic cocktail beverage * Tortuga (software), a software framework for discrete event simulation {{disambiguation, geo, ship