Buena Vista
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Buena Vista, which means "pleasant view" in Spanish, may refer to a number of things.
Places
It is the name of several places in the United States:
- Buena Vista, Amador County, California
- Buena Vista, Mariposa County, California
- Buena Vista, Santa Clara County, California
- Buena Vista, Sonoma County, California
- Buena Vista, Tehama County, California
- Buena Vista, Colorado
- Buena Vista, Georgia
- Buena Vista, Michigan
- Buena Vista, Peru, site of 4200 y.o. observatory near Lima
- Buena Vista, Virginia
- Buena Vista, Portage County, Wisconsin
- Buena Vista, Richland County, Wisconsin
- Buena Vista Charter Township, Michigan
- Buena Vista County, Iowa
- Buena Vista Township, New Jersey
- Lake Buena Vista, Florida (owned by The Walt Disney Company; see also the Disney divisions below)
- North Buena Vista, Iowa
- Buena Vista University
- Buena Vista Park, a park in the Haight-Ashbury and Buena Vista Heights neighborhoods of San Francisco, California.
Disney
Buena Vista is frequently used as a name for divisions of The Walt Disney Company, including:- Buena Vista Distribution, a film distributor in United States
- Buena Vista International, a film distributor
- Buena Vista Interactive, a software company
- Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Disney's film division
- Buena Vista Music Group, Disney's music division
- Buena Vista Television, Disney's television syndiction unit
- Lake Buena Vista, Florida, site of the Walt Disney World resort.
Miscellaneous
- The Battle of Buena Vista was a land battle of the Mexican-American War fought on February 23, 1847 in Buena Vista, seven miles (12 km) south of Saltillo, in northern Mexico.
- Buena Vista Social Club is a 1997 album of Cuban music.
- Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary about the album and its musicians.
See also
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