Balboa

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Balboa may refer to: Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1470–1519), Spanish explorer

Balboa may also refer to:

Places

• Balboa, León, a Spanish village and municipality
• Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, also called Balboa
• Balboa, Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia
• Balboa High School (California), an American public high school of San Francisco, California
• Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California

• Balboa (lunar crater), a lunar crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon
• Balboa, Panama, a port city in Panama
  • Balboa District, a district of Panamá Province in Panama
• Balboa Park (disambiguation), any of several
• Balboa (Los Angeles Metro station), a station on the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line
• Balboa, Oregón
• Balboa, Risaralda
• Naval Medical Center San Diego, a US Navy medical treatment facility informally known as "Balboa Hospital"

People

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
• Javier Balboa (born 1985), Equatoguinean football midfielder
• Marcelo Balboa (born 1967), American former soccer defender

Entertainment

• Balboa (dance), a close embrace style of swing dancing
• Balboa (band), a hardcore band from Philadelphia
• Rocky Balboa, protagonist of the Rocky film series
• Balboa, the merged tribe name in Survivor: Pearl Islands
• Balboa, a probe featured in Alien Planet
• Balboa Film Distributors, a film distribution company

Other uses

• Chrysochlamys, a genus of plants
• Panamanian balboa, the official currency of Panama
• Balboa Beer, a Panamanian Lager Beer

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