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Mariposa is the Spanish word for
butterfly .
It may also refer to:
Geography
Canada
Peru
United States
Mariposa County, California , a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
Mariposa, California , 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 , a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park
Sea vessels
Entertainment
People and history
Mariposa War , 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 , a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokuts people in the Mariposa War
Music
Albums
Songs
Artists
Other
See also
Mariposan , the Yokuts people and language of California
Topics referred to by the same term