Malpaís

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In Spanish, Malpaís means badland. It can refer to:

• United States:

• The Carrizozo Malpaís, a large lava flow near the Jornada del Muerto in the state of New Mexico.
• El Malpaís National Monument, west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Malpaís, a fictional pueblo in the New Mexico Savage Reservation in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World.
• Other badlands

• Costa Rica:

• A beach on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, which is also the namesake of a short story by S. K. Azoulay.
• Malpaís, a band from Costa Rica.