Yuma can refer to:

Places

United States

Yuma County, Arizona Yuma County is a County (United States), county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona, one of 15 List of counties in Arizona, counties in the state. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 203,881. ...

Yuma, Arizona Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan ...

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Marine Corps Air Station Yuma or MCAS Yuma is a United States Marine Corps air station in Arizona. It is the home of multiple squadrons of F-35B Lightning IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MA ...

Yuma Proving Ground Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) is a United States Army series of environmentally specific test centers with its Yuma Test Center (YTC) being one of the largest military installations in the world. It is subordinate to the U.S. Army Test and Evalua ...

** Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona (CDP) **

Yuma Territorial Prison The Yuma Territorial Prison is a former prison located in Yuma, Arizona, United States, that opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909. It is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the National Register of Historic ...

Fort Yuma Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was established in 1848. It served as a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861. The fort was retired from ...

, California *

Yuma County, Colorado Yuma County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,988. The county seat is Wray. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and ...

Yuma, Colorado Yuma is a List of cities and towns in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule municipality that is the List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous municipality in Yuma County, Colorado, Yuma County, Colorado, United States. The populat ...

* Yuma, Kansas * Yuma, Kentucky * Yuma, Michigan, in Springville Township *

Yuma, Tennessee Yuma is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It border ...

Elsewhere

Yuma Desert The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and the northwest of Mexico. It lies in the Salton Sink, Salton basin. The desert contains areas of sparse vegetation and has notable areas of Dune ...

, desert in southwest U.S. and northwest Mexico *

Long Island, Bahamas Long Island is an island in The Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. It is one of the Districts of the Bahamas and is known as the most scenic island in the Bahamas. Its capital is Clarence Town. The population of Long Island is 3,094 ...

, called Yuma by Native Arawak Indians over 500 years ago * The

Magdalena River The Magdalena River (, ; less commonly ) is the main river of Colombia, flowing northward about through the western half of the country. It takes its name from the biblical figure Mary Magdalene. It is navigable through much of its lower reaches, ...

, Colombia, also known as the Yuma River * La Yuma / el Yuma, approbative name for the United States in Cuba *

Yuma River (Dominican Republic) The Yuma River is a river of the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime bound ...

People

Quechan The Quechan ( Quechan: ''Kwatsáan'' 'those who descended'), or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California just north of the Mexican border. Despite ...

, also called Yuma, a native people of Arizona *

Juma people The Júma are an Indigenous people of Brazil, who live in the Terra Indígena Juma in the Amazonas, along the Mucuim River, a tributary of Rio Açuã. Name The Júma are also known as Kagwahibm, Kagwahiph, Kagwahiv, Kavahiva, Kawahip, Kawa ...

, a native people of Brazil *

Suma Indians The Suma were an Indigenous people of Aridoamerica. They had two branches, one living in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua and the other living near present-day El Paso, Texas.Frederick Webb Hodge, ''Handbook of American Indians ...

(Suma also spelled Yuma), a native people of Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico *

Yuma (name) and are separate Japanese given names used for females or males, though they can be romanized the same way when vowel length is not transliterated. Possible spellings of Yuma include ゆま, 夢真, and 悠麻. Possible spellings of Yūma inc ...

, a Japanese given name

Arts and entertainment

* ''Yuma'' (1971 film), TV film starring Clint Walker * ''Yuma'' (2012 film), Polish film

Others

* USS ''Yuma'', name of a number of U.S. Navy ships * Yuma point, also called an

Eden point Eden Points are a form of chipped stone projectile points associated with a sub-group of the larger Plano culture. Sometimes also called Yuma points, the first Eden points were discovered in washouts in Yuma County, Colorado. They were first di ...

, type of Paleo-Indian stone projectile point, first found in Yuma County, Colorado *

Yuma War The Yuma War was the name given to a series of United States military operations conducted in Southern California and what is today southwestern Arizona from 1850 to 1853. The Quechan (also known as Yuma) were the primary opponent of the Unite ...

, armed conflict fought primarily between the United States and the Yuma people * ''Yuma'' (moth), genus of moths in the subfamily