Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly.
It may also refer to:
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United States
- Mariposa County, California, a county in the U.S. state of California, located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
- Mariposa, California, seat of the county in California
- Mariposa Township, Saunders County, Nebraska
- Mariposa, a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
- Mariposa station (Los Angeles Metro)
- Mariposa station (San Francisco)
- Mariposa Grove, a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park
- Mariposa War, a war between Native Americans and miners in California that lasted from May 1850 until June 1851
- Las Mariposas, nickname for the Mirabal sisters, Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo
- Mariposa Battalion, a California State Militia unit formed in 1851 to fight the Miwok and Yokuts people in the Mariposa War
- Mariposan, the Yokuts people and language of California