Amistad
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"Amistad" is a Spanish noun meaning "friendship
". It may refer to:
Ships
Places
Works
Friendship
Friendship is a form of interpersonal relationship generally considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association are often thought of as spanning across the same continuum...
". It may refer to:
Ships
- Amistad/AmitieAmistad/AmitieThe Amitié was a three-masted frigate of approximately 400 tons displacement in the late 18th century. The majority of records regarding the ship come from its transportation of the people who were to become the known as Cajuns. Amitié was the fifth of seven ships that took part in the exodus of...
, an 18th century schooner that transported Acadians from France to Louisiana. - La AmistadLa AmistadLa Amistad was a ship notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba. It was a 19th-century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba...
, a 19th-century Spanish schoonerSchoonerA schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
on which kidnapped Africans rebelled and took control.- Amistad (1841)Amistad (1841)The Amistad, also known as United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 , was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of slaves on board the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839...
, United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the captives who mutinied on the ship Amistad. - Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy, the 1987 historical account by Howard Jones, on which Amistad (film) was based.
- Amistad (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie about the 19th century ship, events and Supreme Court case.
- Freedom Schooner Amistad, a 1998 recreation of the original La Amistad schooner
- Amistad (1841)
Places
- Amistad Research Center, Tulane UniversityTulane UniversityTulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
, New Orleans, Louisiana, devoted to research about slavery, civil rights and African Americans. - Amistad, New MexicoAmistad, New MexicoAmistad is a small unincorporated community in Union County, New Mexico, U.S. It is located about 39 miles south of Clayton on New Mexico State Highway 402.-History:...
, a community in New Mexico - Amistad National Recreation AreaAmistad National Recreation AreaAmistad National Recreation Area includes the area around the Amistad Reservoir at the confluence of the Rio Grande River, the Devils River, and the Pecos River. "Amistad" is Spanish for "friendship", as the Amistad Reservoir is located on the border with Mexico...
, including the Amistad Reservoir, Texas. - Amistad ReservoirAmistad ReservoirAmistad Reservoir is a reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River 12 miles northwest of Del Rio, Texas, USA. The lake is bounded by Val Verde County on the Texas side of the international border, and the state of Coahuila on the Mexican side of the border...
, a reservoir on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas.- Amistad GambusiaAmistad gambusiaThe Amistad gambusia was a small fish known only to occur in Goodenough Spring, Val Verde County, Texas, a tributary of the Rio Grande. This species was eliminated in the wild when construction of the Amistad Reservoir in 1968 submerged Goodenough Spring under approximately 70 feet of water...
, an extinct fish that lived in springs now flooded by Amistad Reservoir.
- Amistad Gambusia
- La Amistad International ParkLa Amistad International ParkThe La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish , formerly the La Amistad National Park, is an Transboundary Protected Area in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica and Panama, following a recommendation by UNESCO after the park's inclusion in the World Heritage Site...
, a large International Park in Panama and Costa Rica. - La Amistad (residential treatment center), a residential treatment center located in Maitland, Florida
Works
- Amistad, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishing
- A working title for the song "You Found Me" by The Fray