Amistad

Amistad ("friendship" in Spanish) may refer to:

Places

• Amistad, New Mexico, US
• Amistad, Texas, US
• Amistad National Recreation Area, including the Amistad Reservoir, Texas
• Amistad Reservoir, a reservoir on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas
• La Amistad International Park, a large International Park in Panama and Costa Rica

Arts, media, and entertainment

• Amistad (publishing), an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
• "Amistad", a working title for the song "You Found Me" by The Fray
• Amistad Memorial (New Haven), the memorial in New Haven, Connecticut recognizing the mutiny aboard La Amistad
• Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (1987), the historical account of the La Amistad mutiny by Howard Jones
• Amistad (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie based on the events of the book

Law

• United States v. The Amistad (1841), United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the captives who mutinied on the ship Amistad

Ships

• Amistad/Amitie, an 18th-century schooner that transported Acadians from France to Louisiana
• La Amistad, a 19th-century Spanish schooner on which captured Africans meant for the slave trade rebelled in 1839 and took control; the case reached the US Supreme Court and was notable in the abolition movement
  • Freedom Schooner Amistad, a 1998 recreation of the original La Amistad schooner

Other uses

• Amistad gambusia, an extinct fish that lived in springs now flooded by Amistad R