Amistad ("friendship" in Spanish) may refer to:
Places
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Amistad, New Mexico
Amistad is an unincorporated community in Union County, New Mexico, United States. It is located approximately 39 miles south of Clayton on State Route 402.
History
Amistad was a stop for cattle drives during the late 19th century. In 1906 ...
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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
Amistad i ...
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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 Rio ...
, including the Amistad Reservoir, Texas
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Amistad Reservoir
Amistad Reservoir ( es, Presa Amistad) is a reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River northwest of Del Rio, Texas. The lake is bounded by Val Verde County on the United States side of the international border and by th ...
, a reservoir on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas
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La Amistad International Park, a large International Park in Panama and Costa Rica
Arts, media, and entertainment
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Amistad (publishing)
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp ...
, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
*"Amistad", a working title for the song "
You Found Me" by The Fray
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''Amistad Memorial'' (New Haven), the memorial in New Haven, Connecticut recognizing the mutiny aboard ''La Amistad''
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Mutiny on the Amistad: 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
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''Amistad'' (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie based on the events of the book
Law
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United States v. The Amistad'' (1841), United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the captives who mutinied on the ship ''Amistad''
Ships
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Amistad/Amitie'', an 18th-century schooner that transported Acadians from France to Louisiana
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La Amistad
''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''Friendship'') was a 19th-century two- masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard colonizing Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been captured and sold to European slave ...
'', 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
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Freedom Schooner Amistad
''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''Friendship'') was a 19th-century two- masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard colonizing Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been captured and sold to European slave ...
'', 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
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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 nearly 1000 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. Within the Lamiaceae, ''Salvia'' is part of the tribe Mentheae within the subfamily Nepetoide ...
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