title: Escalante
text: # Escalante
  
  Escalante may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Amat Escalante (born 1979), Mexican filmmaker
  * Bernardino de Escalante (1537–after 1605), 16th-century Spanish writer, author of one of the first European books on China
  * Enrique Escalante (born 1984), Puerto Rican volleyball player
  * Francis García Escalante, Mexican transvestite who has become a famous actor
  * Gonzalo Escalante (born 1993), Argentine footballer
  * Jaime Escalante (1930–2010), Bolivian former mathematics teacher
  * Joe Escalante (born 1963), American musician
  * Jorge Volpi (born 1968), Mexican writer
  * José Escalante (born 1995), Honduran footballer
  * Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Spanish padre and explorer in North America
  
  ## Places
  
  ### United States
  
  * The Escalante, a hotel in Ash Fork, Arizona
  * Escalante, Utah
  * Escalante Butte, of Eastern Grand Canyon
  * Escalante Desert, Utah
  * Escalante River, Utah
  * Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah
     * Escalante National Monument, Utah
  
  ### Elsewhere
  
  * Escalante Department, an administrative district in Argentina
  * Escalante (El Apagado), a volcano in Chile
  * Escalante, Negros Occidental, Philippines
  * Escalante, Cantabria, Spain
  * Escalante River (Venezuela)
  * 5095 Escalante, an asteroid
  * Escalante (Martian crater), a crater on Mars
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Escalante massacre, 1985 in Escalante, Negros Occidental, Philippines
  * Escalante syndrome or Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic disorder
  