Zapata

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Zapata may refer to:

People

• Zapata (surname)
• Zapata, pen name of François-Marie Arouet
• Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary

Birds

• Zapata rail
• Zapata sparrow
• Zapata wren

Places

• Zapata Peninsula, peninsula in Cuba
• Zapata Swamp, Cuba
• Zapata County, Texas
  • Zapata, Texas

Films

• Viva Zapata!, a 1952 movie based on the life of Emiliano Zapata
• Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, a Mexican movie about Emiliano Zapata
• Zapata Westerns, a subgenre of Westerns and Spaghetti Westerns set during the Mexican Revolution era

Other

• Zapata Corporation, founded by George H. W. Bush
• Operation Zapata, code name for the failed CIA-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban exile training program.
• Metro Zapata, a Mexico City Metro station
• Zapata Formation, geological formation in Patagonia

Artworks

• Zapata (lithograph) created by Diego Rivera in 1932