Tortuga
Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to:
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Geography
Islands
- Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, a pirate stronghold in the 17th-century
- Tortugas Banks, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
- Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United States
- Dry Tortugas National Park, a national park consisting of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas
- Isla Tortuga, a volcanic island in the Gulf of California, part of Baja California, Mexico
- La Tortuga Island, an uninhabited 156 km2 island in the Caribbean Sea that is a federal dependency of Venezuela
- Las Tortugas, name given by Christopher Columbus to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac
Places
- Freeport Tortuga, a free port project on Tortuga, Haiti, during the early 1970s
- Tortuga Bay, a bay on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos
Art, entertainment, and media
Film
- Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Television
- Tortuga (Breaking Bad), a fictional drug dealer in the AMC-TV drama, Breaking Bad
- Tortuga, a fictional aircraft in the children's television show Wild Kratts
Games
- Tortuga: Pirates of the New World, a computer game set in the Golden Age of Piracy era
- An island in the Assassin's Creed game Assassin's Creed Black Flag.
- An island in Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, a turn-based role-playing game published for the Nintendo DS.
Literature
- Tortuga, a novel by Rudolfo Anaya
- Far Tortuga, a 1975 novel by Peter Matthiessen
Sports
- Coliseo La Tortuga, an indoor sporting arena in Talcahuano, Chile
- Daytona Tortugas, a Class A-Advanced minor league baseball team in the Florida State League.
Transportation
- Tortuga (vehicle), a Venezuelan armored vehicle
- SS Antigua, later called SS Tortuga, a turbo-electric liner
- USS Tortuga (LSD-26), a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship commissioned in 1945, in action during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and decommissioned in 1970
- USS Tortuga (LSD-46), a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship commissioned in 1990 and on active service as of 2012
Other uses
- Tortuga (cocktail), a non-alcoholic cocktail beverage
- Tortuga (software), a software framework for discrete event simulation
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