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Buena Vista
Buena Vista, which means "pleasant view" in Spanish, may refer to a number of things.
It is the name of several places in the United States:
- Buena Vista, California
- Buena Vista, Colorado
- Buena Vista, Georgia
- Buena Vista, Michigan
- Buena Vista, Virginia
- Buena Vista, Portage County, Wisconsin
- Buena Vista, Richland County, Wisconsin
- Buena Vista Charter Township, Michigan
- Buena Vista Township, New Jersey
- Lake Buena Vista, Florida (owned by Disney; see also the Disney divisions below)
- North Buena Vista, Iowa
- Buena Vista Park, a park in the Haight-Ashbury and Buena Vista Heights neighborhoods of San Francisco, California.
It is the name of one place in Canada:
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 is frequently used as a name for divisions of The Walt Disney Company, including:
- Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Disney's film division
- Buena Vista Music Group, Disney's music division
- Buena Vista Distribution, a film distributor in United States
- Buena Vista International, a film distributor
- Buena Vista Interactive, a software company
Buena Vista Social Club is both an album of music from Cuba and a movie by Wim Wenders.
See also: Vista.
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