Socorro
Socorro is a Portuguese and Spanish word, a cognate of the English word succor (sometimes spelled succour, especially in Britain), which means "aid" or "help." When used as a place name, it often originates as a reference to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro (Our Lady of Perpetual Succour). It can mean:
Places:
- Socorro, São Paulo, a city in São Paulo state, Brazil
- Socorro (district of São Paulo), a district in São Paulo city, Brazil
- Socorro River, a river in Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil
- Socorro, Santander a town and municipality in Santander Department, Colombia
- Socorro Province, in the former country of Gran Colombia
- Socorro (Serula) a village in Goa, India
- Socorro Island (Isla Socorro), Mexico
- Socorro, Surigao del Norte, Philippines, a municipality
- Socorro, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, a municipality
- Socorro (Lisbon), a parish in Portugal
- Socorro, New Mexico, a city in the United States
- Socorro County, New Mexico
- Socorro, Texas, a village in the United States
- Socorro (Star Wars), a planet in the fictional Star Wars universe
People:
Animals:
Other uses:
- Socorro (TransMilenio), a mass transit station in Bogotá, Colombia
- Church of Our Lord of Socorro, Ponte de Lima, Portugal
- socorro, a breakpad server written in Python and Pylons
- Socorro, a First Aid (Medical and Fire Rescue) Foundation in Winterswijk, the Netherlands
- Socorro Nobre, a 1995 documentary film
- Socorro Rojo Internacional, International Red Aid
- Socorro Rojo del P.O.U.M., a Spanish aid society during the 1930s civil war