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Amistad ("friendship" in Spanish) may refer to:


Places

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Amistad, New Mexico Amistad is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Union County, New Mexico, Union County, New Mexico, United States. It is located approximately 39 miles south of Clayton, New Mexico, Clayton on New Mexico State Road 402, State Ro ...
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Amistad, Texas Amistad is a census-designated place (CDP) in Val Verde County, Texas, United States. The population was 53 at the 2010 census. This CDP was formed prior to the 2010 census from parts of the deleted Box Canyon-Amistad CDP. Geography Accordi ...
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Amistad National Recreation Area Amistad National Recreation Area is a national recreation area managed by National Park Service (NPS) that includes the area around the Amistad Reservoir at the confluence of the Rio Grande, the Devils River, and the Pecos River near Del R ...
, including the Amistad Reservoir, Texas *
Amistad Reservoir Amistad Reservoir () is a Reservoir (water), reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River (Texas), Devils River northwest of Del Rio, Texas, Del Rio, Texas. The lake is bounded by Val Verde County, Texas, Val Verde County ...
, a reservoir on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas *
La Amistad International Park La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish , formerly La Amistad National Park, is a transboundary protected area in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica ( Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area ...
, a large International Park in Panama and Costa Rica


Arts, media, and entertainment

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Amistad (publishing) HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the " Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is h ...
, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing *"Amistad", a working title for the song "
You Found Me "You Found Me" is a song by American rock band the Fray. It was released in November 2008 as the lead single from their eponymous second studio album. Live performances of the song from concerts in Europe surfaced on YouTube in late 2007, when ...
" by The Fray * ''Amistad Memorial'' (New Haven), the memorial in New Haven, Connecticut recognizing the mutiny aboard ''La Amistad'' *''
Mutiny on the Amistad ''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''The Friendship'') was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave ...
: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy'' (1987), the historical account of the ''La Amistad'' mutiny by Howard Jones * ''Amistad'' (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie based on the events of the book


Law

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United States v. The Amistad ''United States v. Schooner Amistad'', 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner '' La Amistad'' in 1839.. It was an unusual freedom suit that i ...
'' (1841), United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the captives who mutinied on the ship ''Amistad''


Ships

*'' Amistad/Amitie'', an 18th-century schooner that transported Acadians from France to Louisiana *''
La Amistad ''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''The Friendship'') was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slav ...
'', a 19th-century Spanish schooner on which captured Africans meant for the slave trade rebelled in 1839 and took control; the case reached the US Supreme Court and was notable in the abolition movement **'' Freedom Schooner Amistad'', a 1998 recreation of the original ''La Amistad'' schooner


Other uses

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Amistad gambusia The Amistad gambusia (''Gambusia amistadensis'') is an extinct species of small fish known only from a single locality, the large vegetated Goodenough Spring in Val Verde County, Texas. It apparently was driven to extinction in the wild when its ...
'', an extinct fish that lived in springs now flooded by Amistad Reservoir in Texas *
Amistad Research Center The Amistad Research Center (ARC) is an independent archives and manuscripts repository in the United States that specializes in the history of African Americans and ethnic minorities. It is one of the first institutions of its kind in the United ...
, a research center at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana devoted to research about slavery, civil rights, and African Americans that commemorates the revolt of slaves on the ship by the same name * Amistad, a popular Award of Garden Merit cultivar of
Salvia ''Salvia'' () is the largest genus of plants in the sage family Lamiaceae, with just under 1,000 species of shrubs, Herbaceous plant, herbaceous Perennial plant, perennials, and Annual plant, annuals. Within the Lamiaceae, ''Salvia'' is part o ...
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