Tortuga

Tortuga is the Spanish word for a turtle or tortoise. It may also refer to:

Geography

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

Freeport Tortuga, a free port project on Tortuga, Haiti, during the early 1970s
Tortuga, California, an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States
Tortuga Bay, a bay on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos

Tortuga Isle, a safe haven for fugitive pirates, featured prominently in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

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

Tortuga: Pirates of the New World, a computer game set in the Golden Age of Piracy era

An island in the game Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

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.

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

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