Esperanza

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Esperanza is the Spanish word for "hope" and may refer to:

Botany

• Tecoma stans, a yellow flower sometimes called esperanza

Places

• Esperanza, Belize, a village in Cayo District, Belize
• Esperanza, Santa Fe, a city in Argentina
• Esperanza, Ucayali, a city in Peru
• Esperanza (municipality), a town and municipality in Puebla, south-eastern Mexico
• Esperanza, Dominican Republic, a municipality in Valverde province
• Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, a municipality in the Philippines
• Esperanza, Masbate, a municipality in the Philippines
• Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat, a municipality in the Philippines
• Esperanza (Ranchuelo), a village in Cuba
• Esperanza, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Esperanza, Puerto Rico, a town in Vieques, Puerto Rico
• Esperanza (Jerusalem, New York), an historic home in Jerusalem, New York, United States
• Esperanza Base, a settlement in Antarctica
• La Esperanza, Honduras, a city in the department of Intibucá
• Última Esperanza Province, a province of Chile
• Esperanza Fire, a wind-driven arson fire that started in a river wash near Cabazon, California

People

• Esperanza (given name), a Spanish feminine given name
• Gabriel Esperanza, 17th-century rabbi

Ships

• MV Esperanza, a Greenpeace ship
• Esperanza (1837), a Portuguese slaver that went down near East Caicos, with more than 200 Africans surviving

Books

• Esperanza Rising, a 2000 book by Pam Munoz Ryan

Film and TV

• Esperanza (1946 film), a 1946 Mexican film
• Esperanza (TV series), a TV series in the Philippines
• Esperanza TV, a TV channel of the Hope Channel

Music

Albums

• Próxima Estación: Esperanza, a 2001 album by Manu Chao
• Esperanza (Esperanza Spalding album), 2008
• Esperanza (Michael Rother album), 1996
• Esperanza (band), a nine-piece Glasgow ska band, who were on stage in The Clutha Vaults pub when a helicopter crashed in November 2013.

Songs

• "Esperanza" (song), the title of the first single released by Enrique Iglesias from his third studio album Cosas del Amor
• Esperanza (Charles Aznavour song) 1961

Organizations

• Esperanza Unida, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides job training and placement to unemployed minority workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• Esperanza High School, a 9th–12th grade public high school located in Anaheim, California, USA
• Esperanza Drum and Bugle Corps, a modern drum corps from San Diego, California, USA
• Esperanza network, a non-profit organisation that connects volunteers and international voluntary projects

See also

• Esperanto, the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language
• La Esperanza (disambiguation)