Buenaventura
Buenaventura (Spanish, 'good fortune', and the name of Saint Bonaventure) or Buena Ventura may refer to:
People
- Buenaventura Báez (1812-1884), president of the Dominican Republic for five terms
- Buenaventura Bagaria (1882–1947), a Spanish sports shooter
- Buenaventura Carlos Aribau (1798–1862), a Spanish economist, writer and politician
- Buenaventura Cousiño Jorquera (1808–1855), a Chilean politician
- Buenaventura de Abarzuza y Ferrer (1843–1910), a Spanish diplomat
- Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), a Spanish anarchist and hero of the Spanish Civil War
- Buenaventura Ferreira (born 1960), a Paraguayan footballer
- Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola (1724–1777), a Spanish aristocrat and priest
- Buenaventura García de Paredes (1866–1936), a Dominican priest
- Buenaventura Marcó del Pont (1738–1818), a Spanish businessman
- Buenaventura S. Medina Jr. (born 1928), a Filipino author
- Buenaventura Rodriguez (1893–1940), Filipino playwright and politician
- Buenaventura Sitjar (1739–1808), Franciscan missionary who served in California, U.S.
- Buenaventura Villamayor (born 1967), a Filipino chess player
- Rafael Buenaventura (1938–2006), a Filipino banker
Places
- Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Buenaventura, Cuba
- Buenaventura, Camagüey, Cuba
- Buenaventura Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
- Buenaventura, Spain
- Buenaventura Lakes, Florida, U.S.
- Buenaventura Province, a former province of Gran Colombia
Other uses
- Buenaventura, a 2016 album by La Santa Cecilia
- "Buenaventura", a song by Paul van Dyk from the 2003 album Reflections
- Buenaventura River (legend), a non-existent river once believed to run from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
- USS Buena Ventura (ID-1335), or USS Buenaventura, a U.S. Navy cargo ship sunk in WW1
- Buenaventura (mining company), a Peruvian mining company
- Buenaventura Press, an American publisher and distributor of comics and graphic novels
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Buenaventura
- All pages with titles containing Buenaventura
- San Buenaventura (disambiguation)
- Buenaventura Classic, a men's professional golf tournament
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