Catalina
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Catalina is a feminine given name. It is a Spanish form of Katherine. Catalina is an equivalent to Katherine or Catherine in English, Ekaterina in Russian, Caterina in Italian, Catalan and Ukrainian, Catherine in French, etc. It may refer to:
In geography:
- Catalina, Arizona
- Catalina, Covasna, Romania
- Catalina, Dominican Republic, an island off the coast of the province of La Romana, Dominican Republic
- Cătălina, Romania
- Santa Catalina, Ilocos Sur
- Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental
- Catalina, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Santa Catalina Mountains
- Any number of Catalina Islands:
In transportation:
- PBY Catalina, the United States Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat
- Pontiac Catalina, a full-size Pontiac model from the '50's to the 80's
- SS Catalina, a 1924 steamship now partly submerged in Ensenada, Mexico
- The sailboats made by Catalina Yachts
In fiction:
- Catalina, Space Cases character played by Jewel Staite
- Catalina Aruca, a character from the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl
- Catalina, a character in the popular video games Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. See List of characters in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and List of characters in Grand Theft Auto III.
In filmography:
- Catalina Sandino Moreno, Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress
People:
- A misspelling of Catilina, Roman politician from the 1st century BC
- India Catalina, indigenous calamari princess kidnapped by the Spanish conquerors near Cartagena de Indias to serve as translator in the early sixteenth century
- Catalina Cruz, an American pornographic actress of Mexican ethnicity with German and Slovenian decent
In other fields:
- Catalina Sky Survey
- Catalina Castaño, Colombian female tennis player
- Catalina Guirado, a fashion model
- Catalina Orangetip, subspecies of the butterfly Desert Orangetip that is found only on Santa Catalina Island
- Catalina swimwear, a former swimwear line for the Pacific Mills clothing company
- Santa Catalina Monastery, cloistered convent located in Arequipa, Peru
- Tomcat Catalina, the Jakarta Tomcat version servlet container since Tomcat 4.x
- Catalina Video, gay pornography production house
- In computing, Tomcat Catalina is a name of servlet container in Apache Tomcat
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