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

Places

Philippines

* Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, a municipality * Esperanza, Masbate, a municipality * Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat, a municipality

United States

Esperanza, Mississippi Hurricane is an unincorporated community in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States. It was originally called Esperanza, but the name changed due to being impacted by several severe storms. History The Esperanza Post Office was established i ...

, an unincorporated community * Esperanza, New York, historic name of the village of Athens * Esperanza, Hudspeth County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Esperanza, Montgomery County, Texas, a ghost town * Esperanza, Puerto Rico, a town in Vieques * Esperanza (Jerusalem, New York), an historic home in Jerusalem, New York

Other

* Esperanza Base, a settlement in Antarctica * Esperanza, Santa Fe, a city in Argentina *

Esperanza, Belize Esperanza is a village located along the George Price Highway in Cayo District, Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, ...

, a village in Cayo District, Belize * La Esperanza, Norte de Santander, Colombia, a municipality and town * Esperanza (Ranchuelo), a village in Cuba * Esperanza, Dominican Republic, a municipality in Valverde province * La Esperanza, Ecuador, a town and parish *

La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango La Esperanza is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department Quetzaltenango is a department in the western highlands of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Quetzaltenango, the second largest city in Guatemala.Rouanet et al 1992, p.14. The d ...

, Guatemala, a municipality * La Esperanza, Honduras, a city and municipality in Intibucá Department * Esperanza (municipality), a town and municipality in Puebla, Mexico * Esperanza, Ucayali, a city in Peru * La Esperanza, the seat of the municipality of El Rosario, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands of Spain

People

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

Film and TV

* ''Esperanza'' (film), a 1946 Mexican film * ''Esperanza'' (Philippine TV series) * ''Esperanza'' (Chilean TV series), a 2011 telenovela

Music

* Esperanza, a flamenco project by

Carlos Villalobos Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes modern orchestral music for trailers, television sh ...

Albums

* ''Esperanza'' (Michael Rother album), 1996 * ''Esperanza'' (Esperanza Spalding album), 2008 * '' Próxima Estación: Esperanza'', a 2001 album by Manu Chao

Songs

* "Esperanza" (Charles Aznavour song), 1961 * "Esperanza" (Enrique Iglesias song), 1998

Organizations

* Esperanza Unida, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides job training and placement to unemployed minority workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States *

Esperanza International Esperanza International is a Christian-based not-for-profit organization that is devoted to helping poverty-stricken people of the Dominican Republic through finance, education, health, and spiritual programs. It is classified as a 501(c)(3) non ...

, a non-profit organization that develops Dominican Republican communities through microfinancing

Other uses

* MV ''Esperanza'', a 1984 Greenpeace ship * Esperanza (Madrid Metro), a station of the Madrid Metro * ''Esperanza'' (bug), a genus of bugs * ''

Tecoma stans ''Tecoma stans'' is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush, yellow bells, yellow elder, ginger-thomas. ''Tecoma stans'' is the off ...

'', a yellow flower sometimes called ''esperanza'' *

Esperanza High School Esperanza High School (EHS) is a public high school located in Anaheim, California and is part of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. It is a California Distinguished School and is home to various California Interscholastic Federa ...

, Anaheim, California, United States * Esperanza Drum and Bugle Corps, a modern drum corps from San Diego, California, United States * Esperanza Ortega, the title character of '' Esperanza Rising'', a 2000 novel * La Esperanza Airport, Nicaragua * Esperanza Diamond, found in Crater of Diamonds State Park