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Lobera or La Lobera is the Spanish word for "wolves' lair", “wolf trap”, "wolf pack" or "wolf woman." It is equivalent to Portuguese Lobeira and Italian Luparia. It may refer to:


Places

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Lobera de Onsella Lobera de Onsella (in Aragonese: Lobera d'Onsella) is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 62 inhabitants. See also * List of municipalities i ...
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Lobera de la Vega Lobera de la Vega is a hamlet of Pedrosa de la Vega located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. Lobera was quoted in the documentation of San Benito de Sahagún in times of Ramiro II of León as "Laenna laperca". From this vil ...
* Lobera de Orense * Cave on
San Pedro Nolasco Island San Pedro Nolasco Island, sometimes called Seal Island, is a small and rugged Mexico, Mexican island in the Gulf of California. It is 4.2 km long by 1 km wide, and lies 15 km from the nearest point of the Mexican coast and about 2 ...
* "Wolf's Lair," or La Lobera, isolation blockhouse in
Callao Callao () is a Peruvian seaside city and Regions of Peru, region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area. Callao is Peru's chief seaport and home to its main airport, Jorge Chávez International Airport. Callao municipality consists ...
Naval Base prison in Peru housing inmates such as Shining Path terrorist leader Abimael Guzman.


People

* Lobera, a common Spanish surname **
Pedro Mariño de Lobera Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528–1594) was a Galician soldier, conquistador, and chronicler of the Arauco War in the Captaincy General of Chile. Biography Pedro was a professional soldier who served in the war between Spain and France, and ended ...
* Ana María García, la Lobera, who appeared before the
Inquisition The Inquisition was a Catholic Inquisitorial system#History, judicial procedure where the Ecclesiastical court, ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly it became the name for various med ...
of Toledo in 1648 accused of controlling seven demonic wolves


Other

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wolf trap A wolf trap (Spanish ''lobera'', Italian ''luparia'', Portuguese ''fojo'') was a chase ending in a pit with trapdoor and stakes used by beaters in hunting wolves in medieval Europe.Towards a History of the Basque Language José Ignacio Hualde, J ...
, funnel-like walls leading to a pit with stakes for hunting wolves in Spain * Wolf-slayer
Lobera (sword) The sword Lobera (, literally: "the wolf-slaying sword") was the symbol of power used by Saint Ferdinand III of Castile, instead of the more traditional rod, and so the king will be depicted with orb and sword in hand. History Lobera was the swo ...
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Digitalis purpurea ''Digitalis purpurea'', the foxglove or common foxglove, is a toxic species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe. It has also naturalized in parts of North Ame ...
* Wolf apple
Solanum lycocarpum ''Solanum lycocarpum'', or wolf apple, is common in the Brazilian Cerrado ecoregion. The plant is called ''lobeira'' ("wolf's plant") or ''fruta-do-lobo'' ("wolf's fruit") in Portuguese. The name "wolf apple" comes from the fact that they accou ...
common in the Brazilian savanna. {{disambiguation