Mariposa
Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly.
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, 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
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
USCGC Mariposa (WLB-397), a USCG seagoing buoy tender

Entertainment
Mariposa (novel), a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear
La Mariposa, a 1998 novel by Francisco Jiménez (writer)

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
Mariposa Folk Festival, a folk music festival in Ontario, Canada

Albums
Mariposa (album), a 2015 album by Lodovica Comello
Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña
Mariposa, a 1992 album by Rein Sanction

Songs
"Mariposas" 2022 single released by the Spanish singer Aitana with Sangiovanni
"Mariposa" (song), a 2019 song by Peach Tree Rascals
"La Mariposa", classical guitar composition by Francisco Tárrega (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
"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
"Mariposas", a 2011 song by Belanova on Sueño Electro II

Artists
Mariposa, a pseudonym of Madeline Johnston

Other
Mariposa botnet, 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, a flying insect related to the butterfly
Mariposa (wrestler), American professional wrestler
Barbie Mariposa, a 2008 movie (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends)
Mariposa, a 2020 Indonesian film

See also
Mariposan, the Yokuts people and language of California