title: Balboa
text: # Balboa
  
  Balboa may refer to:
  
  ## Boats
  
  * Balboa 16, an American sailboat design
  * Balboa 20, an American sailboat design
  * Balboa 21, an American sailboat design
  * Balboa 22, an American sailboat design
  * Balboa 23, an American sailboat design
  * Balboa 24, an American sailboat design
  
  ## Places
  
  * Balboa, Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia
  * Balboa, León, a Spanish village and municipality
  * Balboa, Panama, a port city in Panama
     * Balboa District of Panamá Province in Panama
  * Balboa, Risaralda, a town and municipality in Colombia
  * Balboa (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line
  * Balboa (lunar crater), located near the western limb of the Moon
  * Balboa High School (California), an American public high school of San Francisco, California
  * Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, a harborside community in Newport Beach
  * Balboa Park (disambiguation), any of several
  * Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, a neighborhood of the city of Newport Beach
  * Naval Medical Center San Diego, a US Navy medical treatment facility informally known as "Balboa Hospital"
  
  ## People
  
  * Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – 1519), a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
  * Javier Balboa (born 1985), football midfielder
  * Marcelo Balboa (born 1967), American former soccer defender
  * Álex Balboa (born 2001), football midfielder
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Balboa (dance), a close embrace style of swing dancing
  * Balboa (band), a hardcore band from Philadelphia
  * Balboa County, a fictional county setting for the Veronica Mars television series
  * Rocky Balboa, protagonist of the Rocky film series
  * Balboa, the merged tribe name in Survivor: Pearl Islands
  * Balboa, a probe featured in Alien Planet
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Balboa (bug), a genus of dirt-colored seed bugs
  * Balboa Line, a former train route in California, U.S.
  * Panamanian balboa, the official currency of Panama
  