What is "mariquita"

Mariquita may refer to:

• Mariquita, Tolima, a municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia
• Mariquita Airport, an airport serving Mariquita, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia
• Mariquita (1830–1922), a major show-dance choreographer in late 19th-century Paris
• Mariquita Pérez, a Spanish doll thought up by Mrs Leonor Coello de Portugal in 1938
• Mariquita Sánchez (1786-1868), a patriot from Buenos Aires
• Mariquita Jenny Moberly (1855-1937), an English artist, working in oil and watercolour

Mariquita, often referred to as Madame Mariquita, (1830–1922) was an Algerian-born dancer who became a successful choreographer and ballet mistress at various theatres in Paris from the 1840s until 1920.