Balboa
Appearance
Look up balboa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Balboa may refer to:
Boats
[edit]- Balboa 16, an American sailboat design
- Balboa 20, an American sailboat design
- Balboa 21, an American sailboat design
- Balboa 22, an American sailboat design
- Balboa 23, an American sailboat design
- Balboa 24, an American sailboat design
Places
[edit]- Balboa, Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia
- Balboa, León, a Spanish village and municipality
- Balboa, Panama, a port city in Panama
- Balboa District of Panamá Province in Panama
- Balboa, Risaralda, a town and municipality in Colombia
- Balboa (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line
- Balboa (lunar crater), located near the western limb of the Moon
- Balboa High School (California), an American public high school of San Francisco, California
- Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, a harborside community in Newport Beach
- Balboa Park (disambiguation), any of several
- Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, a neighborhood of the city of Newport Beach
- Naval Medical Center San Diego, a US Navy medical treatment facility informally known as "Balboa Hospital"
People
[edit]- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – 1519), a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
- Javier Balboa (born 1985), football midfielder
- Marcelo Balboa (born 1967), American former soccer defender
- Álex Balboa (born 2001), football midfielder
Entertainment
[edit]- Balboa (dance), a close embrace style of swing dancing
- Balboa (band), a hardcore band from Philadelphia
- Balboa County, a fictional county setting for the Veronica Mars television series
- Rocky Balboa, protagonist of the Rocky film series
- Balboa, the merged tribe name in Survivor: Pearl Islands
- Balboa, a probe featured in Alien Planet
Other uses
[edit]- Balboa (bug), a genus of dirt-colored seed bugs
- Balboa Line, a former train route in California, U.S.
- Panamanian balboa, the official currency of Panama