Balboa Explained

Balboa may refer to:

Boats

• Balboa 16, an American sailboat design
• Balboa 20, an American sailboat design
• Balboa 21, an American sailboat design
• Balboa 22, an American sailboat design
• Balboa 23, an American sailboat design
• Balboa 24, an American sailboat design

Places

• Balboa, Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia
• Balboa, León, a Spanish village and municipality
• Balboa, Panama, a port city in Panama
  • Balboa District of Panamá Province in Panama
• Balboa, Risaralda, a town and municipality in Colombia
• Balboa (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line
• Balboa (lunar crater), located near the western limb of the Moon
• Balboa High School (California), an American public high school of San Francisco, California
• Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, a harborside community in Newport Beach
• Balboa Park (disambiguation), any of several
• Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, a neighborhood of the city of Newport Beach
• Naval Medical Center San Diego, a US Navy medical treatment facility informally known as "Balboa Hospital"

People

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475 – 1519), a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
• Javier Balboa (born 1985), football midfielder
• Marcelo Balboa (born 1967), American former soccer defender
• Álex Balboa (born 2001), football midfielder

Entertainment

• Balboa (dance), a close embrace style of swing dancing
• Balboa (band), a hardcore band from Philadelphia
• Balboa County, a fictional county setting for the Veronica Mars television series
• Rocky Balboa, protagonist of the Rocky film series
• Balboa, the merged tribe name in
• Balboa, a probe featured in Alien Planet

Other uses

• Balboa (bug), a genus of dirt-colored seed bugs
• Balboa Line, a former train route in California, U.S.
• Panamanian balboa, the official currency of Panama

See also

• Rocky Balboa (disambiguation)