Balboa
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Balboa may refer to:
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.He traveled to the New World in...

 (c. 1470–1519), Spanish explorer

Balboa may also refer to:

Places

  • Balboa, León
    Balboa, León
    Balboa is a village and municipality located in the region of El Bierzo ....

    , a Spanish village and municipality
  • Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California
    Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California
    The Balboa Peninsula is a neighborhood of the city of Newport Beach, Orange County, California. It is named for the famous Spanish explorer, Vasco Núñez de Balboa....

    , also called Balboa
  • Balboa, Cauca
    Balboa, Cauca
    Balboa is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.Founded by Order No. 02 on 3 November 1967, the municipality covers an area of and has a population of 27,030. The population is primarily engaged in agriculture and ranching....

    , a town and municipality in Colombia
  • Balboa High School (California), an American public high school of San Francisco, California
  • Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California
    Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California
    Balboa Island is an area of Newport Beach, California, actually comprising three modified or artificial islands in Newport Harbor: Balboa Island , the largest; the smaller Little Balboa Island to the east of Balboa Island, joined by a two-lane bridge; and the smallest Collins Island to the...


  • Balboa (lunar crater)
    Balboa (lunar crater)
    Balboa is a lunar crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening, the crater appears highly oval when viewed from the Earth. In actuality, however, the formation is relatively circular. It is comparable in size to the crater Dalton, located just to the southwest...

    , a lunar crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon
  • Balboa, Panama
    Balboa, Panama
    Balboa is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.- History :The town of Balboa, founded by the United States during the construction of the Panama Canal, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish conquistador credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean...

    , a port city in Panama
    • Balboa District
      Balboa District
      Balboa District is a district of Panamá Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 census was 2,336.The district covers a total area of 400 km²...

      , a district of Panamá Province in Panama
  • Balboa Park (disambiguation), any of several
  • Balboa (Los Angeles Metro station), a station on the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line
  • Balboa, Oregón
  • Balboa, Risaralda
    Balboa, Risaralda
    Balboa is a town and municipality in the Department of Risaralda, Colombia....


People

  • Javier Balboa (born 1985), naturalized Equatoguinean football midfielder
  • Marcelo Balboa
    Marcelo Balboa
    Marcelo Balboa is an American former soccer defender who played in the 1990s for the U.S. national team, becoming its captain. After retiring from playing, he has worked as a commentator for ESPN and ABC and MLS games on HDNet and Altitude...

     (born 1967), American former soccer defender

Entertainment

  • Balboa (dance)
    Balboa (dance)
    Balboa today is commonly used both as a term to describe a fusion of dances that originated in Southern California during the 1920s and 1930s, and also referring to a specific dance from that era that was the original Balboa .The original Balboa dance is a form of swing dance that started as early...

    , a close embrace style of swing dancing
  • Balboa (band)
    Balboa (band)
    -Studio releases:*Balboa LP *Balboa CD *Manifeste Canibale EP -Compilations:...

    , a hardcore band from Philadelphia
  • Rocky Balboa, protagonist of the Rocky film series
  • Balboa, the merged tribe name in Survivor: Pearl Islands
    Survivor: Pearl Islands
    Survivor: Pearl Islands is the seventh season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed in 2003 and debuted in the United States on CBS on September 18, 2003....

  • Balboa, a probe featured in Alien Planet
    Alien Planet
    Alien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also...

  • Balboa Film Distributors, a film distribution company

Other uses

  • Chrysochlamys
    Chrysochlamys
    Chrysochlamys is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae.-Synonymy:The monotypic genus Balboa Planch. & Triana has been put in synonymy with Chrysochlamys. Tovomitopsis Planch...

    , a genus of plants
  • Panamanian balboa
    Panamanian balboa
    The balboa is, along with the United States dollar, one of the official currencies of Panama. It is named in honor of the Spanish explorer/conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The balboa is subdivided into 100 centésimos.-The History of the Panamanian Balboa:The balboa replaced the Colombian peso...

    , the official currency of Panama
  • Balboa Beer, a Panamanian Lager Beer
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