Calaveras

Calavera (Spanish for skull) or its plural calaveras, may refer to:

Culture

• Calaveras, any of various skull-shaped things associated with the Dia de Los Muertos
• Literary Calavera, traditional Mexican composition in verse

Places

• Calaveras River, in the Central Valley of California, USA
• Calaveras Creek (California), USA
• Calaveras County, California, USA
• Rancho Calaveras, California, USA
• Calaveras Dome, California, USA; a granite dome
• Cerro de la Calavera (English: Mount Calavera), Carlsbad, California, USA
• Calaveras Unified School District, Calaveras County, California, USA
• Calaveras Fault, a geological fault in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
• Calaveras Valley, California, USA
• La Calavera Historical Neighborhood, Smeltertown, Texas, USA
• Calaveras, Texas, USA; a small town near San Antonio
• Calaveras Creek, Texas, USA
• Calaveras Lake (Texas), USA
• Isla Calavera, an island in the Gulf of California

Facilities and structures

• Calaveras Power Station, San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Calaveras Reservoir, California, USA
• Calaveras County Airport, Calaveras County, California, USA
• Calaveras station, BART, Silicon Valley, California, USA

People

• Jordi Calavera (born 1995) Spanish soccer player
• Calavera II, a former ring name for pro-wrestler luchador Jesús Javier Hernández Silva (1971–1993) aka Oro (wrestler)

Fictional characters

• Calaveras, a member of the Black Moon Clan, the primary villains in the Sailor Moon R manga and anime series
• Calaveras, the subordinates of the Arrancar Rudobone in the Bleach manga and anime series
• Francisca Calavera, titular character of the comic Calavera (comics)
• Manuel Calavera, the protagonist in the LucasArts 1998 adventure game, Grim Fandango
• Maria Calvera, a character from RWBY
• Robi Calavera, titular character of the animated series The Swashbuckling Adventures of Capitán Calavera

Other uses

• El Calavera (film), 1954 Argentinian film
• Calavera (album), a 2001 album by 'Fiskales Ad-Hok'
• Calavera (comics), an adult comic featuring a female assassin with razor claws named Francisca Calavera
• Trío Calaveras, a Mexican musical trio

See also

• Siro calaveras (S. calaveras) a species of mite harvestman
• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", a short story by Mark Twain
• Calavera Hills School, Carlsbad, California, USA
• Calaveras Hills High School, Milpitas, California, USA
• Calaveras Skull, a human skull discovered in Calaveras County
• Calaverite
• All pages with titles beginning with Calaveras
• All pages with titles containing Calaveras
• All pages with titles containing calavera
• Calaveras Big Trees (disambiguation)
• Calaveras Lake (disambiguation)
• Skull (disambiguation)