Tortuga

Tortuga is the Spanish and Catalan word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to:

• Tortuga Island, Haiti, a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, a pirate stronghold in the 17th-century

Islands

• Isla Tortuga, a volcanic island in the Gulf of California, part of Baja California, Mexico
• La Tortuga Island, an uninhabited 156 km² island in the Caribbean Sea that is dependent on the government of Venezuela
• Tortuga Island, Peru, a 1.3 km² island in the department of Ancash, Peru
• Tortuga Islands, Costa Rica, a group of two Costa Rican islands, Isla Tolinga (1.3 km²) and Isla Alcatráz (0.6 km²), in the Pacific Ocean
• Tortuga Island, Ecuador, an island that is part of the Galápagos Islands chain
• Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States
• Dry Tortugas National Park, a national park consisting of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas
• Isla Tortuguero, a 28.1 km² island in Costa Rica

Places

• Freeport Tortuga, a free port project on Tortuga, Haiti during the early 1970s
• Tortuga, California, an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States

Transport

• Tortuga (vehicle), a Venezuelan armored vehicle
• SS Antigua, later called SS Tortuga, a turbo-electric liner
• USS Tortuga (LSD-26), commissioned in 1945, in action during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and decommissioned in 1970
• USS Tortuga (LSD-46), commissioned in 1990 and on active service as of 2012

Entertainment

• Tortuga, a novel by Rudolfo Anaya
• Tortuga (Breaking Bad), a fictional drug dealer in the cable television drama, "Breaking Bad"
• Tortuga: Pirates of the New World, a computer game set in the Golden Age of Piracy era

Other

• Coliseo La Tortuga, an indoor sporting arena in Talcahuano, Chile
• Tortuga (software), a software framework for discrete event simulation

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