# Calaveras

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

## Culture

- [Calaveras](/source/Calavera), any of various skull-shaped things associated with the *Dia de Los Muertos*
- [Literary Calavera](/source/Literary_Calavera), traditional Mexican composition in verse

## Places

- [Calaveras River](/source/Calaveras_River), in the Central Valley of California, USA
- [Calaveras Creek (California)](/source/Calaveras_Creek_(California)), USA
- [Calaveras County, California](/source/Calaveras_County,_California), USA
- [Rancho Calaveras, California](/source/Rancho_Calaveras,_California), USA
- [Calaveras Dome](/source/Calaveras_Dome), California, USA; a granite dome
- [Cerro de la Calavera](/source/Cerro_de_la_Calavera) (English: *Mount Calavera*), Carlsbad, California, USA
- [Calaveras Unified School District](/source/Calaveras_Unified_School_District), Calaveras County, California, USA
- [Calaveras Fault](/source/Calaveras_Fault), a geological fault in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- [Calaveras Valley](/source/Calaveras_Valley), California, USA
- La Calavera Historical Neighborhood, [Smeltertown, Texas](/source/Smeltertown,_Texas), USA
- [Calaveras, Texas](/source/Calaveras,_Texas), USA; a small town near San Antonio
- [Calaveras Creek](/source/Calaveras_Creek), Texas, USA
- [Calaveras Lake (Texas)](/source/Calaveras_Lake_(Texas)), USA
- [Isla Calavera](/source/Isla_Calavera), an island in the Gulf of California

### Facilities and structures

- [Calaveras Power Station](/source/Calaveras_Power_Station), San Antonio, Texas, USA
- [Calaveras Reservoir](/source/Calaveras_Reservoir), California, USA
- [Calaveras County Airport](/source/Calaveras_County_Airport), Calaveras County, California, USA
- [Calaveras station](/source/Calaveras_station), BART, Silicon Valley, California, USA

## People

- [Jordi Calavera](/source/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)](/source/Oro_(wrestler))

### Fictional characters

- Calaveras, a member of the [Black Moon Clan](/source/Black_Moon_Clan), the primary villains in the *Sailor Moon R* manga and anime series
- Calaveras, the [subordinates of the Arrancar Rudobone](/source/List_of_hollows_in_Bleach#Rudobone) in the *Bleach* manga and anime series
- Francisca Calavera, titular character of the comic [*Calavera* (comics)](/source/Calavera_(comics))
- [Manuel Calavera](/source/Manuel_Calavera), the protagonist in the LucasArts 1998 adventure game, *Grim Fandango*
- [Maria Calvera](/source/List_of_RWBY_characters#Maria_Calvera), a character from RWBY
- Robi Calavera, titular character of the animated series *[The Swashbuckling Adventures of Capitán Calavera](/source/The_Swashbuckling_Adventures_of_Capit%C3%A1n_Calavera)*

## Other uses

- *[El Calavera](/source/El_Calavera)* (film), 1954 Argentinian film
- [*Calavera* (album)](/source/Calavera_(album)), a 2001 album by 'Fiskales Ad-Hok'
- [*Calavera* (comics)](/source/Calavera_(comics)), an adult comic featuring a female assassin with razor claws named Francisca Calavera
- [Trío Calaveras](/source/Tr%C3%ADo_Calaveras), a Mexican musical trio

## See also

- [Siro calaveras](/source/Siro_calaveras) (*S. calaveras*) a species of mite harvestman
- "[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County](/source/The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_County)", a short story by Mark Twain

*[The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County](/source/The_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_County),* opera by Lukas Foss based on the short story by Mark Twain

- [Calavera Hills School](/source/Calavera_Hills_School), Carlsbad, California, USA
- [Calaveras Hills High School](/source/Calaveras_Hills_High_School), Milpitas, California, USA
- [Calaveras Skull](/source/Calaveras_Skull), a human skull discovered in Calaveras County
- [Calaverite](/source/Calaverite)
- [Calaveras Big Trees (disambiguation)](/source/Calaveras_Big_Trees_(disambiguation))
- [Calaveras Lake (disambiguation)](/source/Calaveras_Lake_(disambiguation))
- [Skull (disambiguation)](/source/Skull_(disambiguation))

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