Esmeralda Explained

Esmeralda may refer to:

Places

• Esmeralda, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Croydon, Australia
• Esmeralda Municipality, Oruro Department, Bolivia
• Esmeralda, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality in Brazil
• Esmeralda, a town in Chile
• Esmeralda Island, Chile
• Esmeralda, Cuba
• Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States

Arts and entertainment

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

• Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), a character in Victor Hugo's novel and its adaptations
• Esmeralda, an 1856 opera by Vincenzo Battista
• Esmeralda (opera), an 1883 English opera by Arthur Goring Thomas
• La Esmeralda (opera), a 1836 French opera by Louise Bertin
• La Esmeralda (ballet), an 1844 ballet
• Esmeralda (Dargomyzhsky), an 1847 opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky
• Esmeralda (1905 film), a French short silent film
• Esmeralda (1922 film), a British silent film

Television

• Esmeralda (Mexican TV series), a telenovela on El Canal de las Estrellas
• Esmeralda (Venezuelan TV series), a program broadcast by Venevisión
• Esmeralda (Brazilian TV series), a program on Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão
• Maggie Esmerelda, a character from American Horror Story: Freak Show
• Esmeralda, a character from Bewitched
• Esmeralda (Cro character)
• Esmeralda, a secondary villain in the anime Saint October
• Esmeralda, a character from the anime series Saint Seiya

Other arts and entertainment

• Esmeralda (1915 film), a film based on an 1880s play of the same name
• Esmeralda (Fur Fighters), a character from the Fur Fighters video game
• Esmeralda, a character from the 1947 novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
• Esmerelda Weatherwax, a Discworld character
• Esmeralda, servant of Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes
• "Esmeralda", a poem by Nikos Kavvadias
• Esmeralda, a seal in the 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Ships

• , a Portuguese carrack which sank in 1503, the earliest ship found to date from Europe’s Age of Discovery
• , a Spanish frigate captured by Chile in 1820
• , a steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, sunk during the War of the Pacific
• , a steamboat on the Colorado River
• , the world's first protected cruiser
• , an armored cruiser
• Esmeralda (1944), ex-, a corvette transferred to the Chilean Navy
• , a training ship of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1953

Other uses

• Esmeralda (given name)
• Esmeralda (plant), a genus of orchids
• Esmeralda (beetle), a genus of beetles
• Esmeralda (Mexibús), a BRT station in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
• Esmeralda Avenue (disambiguation)
• Esmeralda Open, a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the 1940s
• Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", an educational institution for plastic arts
• Esmeralda language, an extinct language from Ecuador
• Esmeralda Peaks, a mountain in Washington state, United States

See also

• Santa Esmeralda, a 1970s musical group
• Miss Esmeralda, an 1887 Victorian burlesque on Victor Hugo's work, with music by Meyer Lutz and a libretto by Fred Leslie
• La Esmeralda (disambiguation)
• Esmeraldas (disambiguation)