Barataria Explained

Barataria may refer to:

Places

Trinidad and Tobago

• Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago

United States

• Barataria, Louisiana, a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish
• Barataria Bay (sometimes "Barrataria Bay"), Louisiana
• Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana
• Bayou Barataria, which drains into Barataria Bay

In fiction

• Barataria, a fictional ínsula ("isle") awarded by some noblemen to Sancho Panza as a prank in Part II of Cervantes' Don Quixote (from the Spanish word barato, meaning cheap)
• Barataria, a fictional republican kingdom in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers
• Castle Barataria, a castle on Planet X in the CRPG

Ships

• USC&GS Barataria (1867), a survey ship in service with the United States Coast Survey from 1867 to 1878 and with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1885
• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381), later WHEC-381, a United States Coast Guard cutter in service from 1949 to 1969
• USS Barataria, the name of more than one United States Navy ship