Rincon

Rincon or Rincón (Spanish for corner) may refer to:

• Rincon (meadow)
• Rincon (abandoned meander)

People

• Rincon (surname)
• Rincón (footballer, born 1977), born Gilvan Santos Souza, Brazilian football striker
• Rincón (footballer, 1980-2013), born Claudiney Ramos, Equatoguinean football defensive midfielder
• Rincón (footballer, born 1987), born Carlos Eduardo de Castro Lourenço, Brazilian football centre-back
• Rincon (footballer, born 1994), born Rincon Teixeira da Rocha, Brazilian football forward

Places

South America and Caribbean

Argentina

• Rincón (Catamarca), Argentine town in Catamarca Province
• Rincón de Los Sauces, Argentine town in Neuquén Province
• Rincón (Córdoba), Argentine town in Córdoba Province

Bonaire

• Rincon, Bonaire, one of only two towns on the island of Bonaire

Costa Rica

• Rincón de Sabanilla, district in San Pablo canton

Dominican Republic

• Rincón, municipal district in La Vega Province

Falkland Islands

• Rincon Grande, East Falkland

Panama

• Rincón, Chiriquí

Puerto Rico

Rincón, Puerto Rico, a municipality

• Rincón, Cayey, Puerto Rico, a barrio
• Rincón, Cidra, Puerto Rico, a barrio
• Rincón, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, a barrio
• Rincón, Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, a barrio
• Rincón barrio-pueblo, a barrio of Ríncon, a municipality of Puerto Rico

North America

Mexico

• Rincón de Romos, Mexican town in Aguascalientes

United States

• Rincon de los Esteros, a Mexican land grant in the present Santa Clara County, California
• Rincon, California, an Indian Reservation located on the East end of Valley Center, California
• Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood and landform
  • One Rincon Hill, a pair of residential skyscrapers on the hill
• Rincon, Georgia, a city
• Rincon Mountains, a mountain range in Arizona
• Rincon, New Mexico, a census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico
• Rincon, Riverside County, California the name applied to a tract of land lying on either side of the Santa Ana River, from ten to twenty miles below Riverside, California. A settlement along the river at its crossing point, later renamed Prado, now a ghost town.
• Rancho El Rincon (Arellanes), a 4,460-acre (18.0 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County and Ventura County, California
• Rincon (surfspot), at the beach along Rincon Point located at the Ventura / Santa Barbara County line on the Pacific Coast of California, USA
• Rincon Parkway, the portion of California State Route 1 along the north coast of Ventura County, California
• Rincon Island (California), artificial island located off Mussel Shoals (also called "Little Rincon") in Ventura County, California, constructed in 1958 for oil and gas production
• Rincon Point (Santa Barbara County), a cape on the Santa Barbara Channel at the boundary between Santa Barbara County and Ventura County
• Rincon Creek (Southern California), a creek that marks the boundary between Santa Barbara and Ventura County, California
• Rincon Formation, a sedimentary geologic unit of Lower Miocene age, abundant in the coastal portions of southern Santa Barbara County, California eastward into Ventura County.
• Rincon Oil Field, a large oil field on the coast of southern California, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the city of Ventura

Cuba

• Rincón, Camajuaní, an agricultural settlement in Camajuaní, Villa Clara
• Rincón, Havana, a settlement in Havana
• Rincón, Morón, neighborhood in Morón
• El Rincón, Santiago de Cuba, Hamlet in Pueblo Nuevo, Santiago de Cuba

Africa

• Rincón (Morocco), Mediterranean town in Morocco between Tangier and Tétouan

Europe

Spain

• Rincón de la Victoria, municipality in the Málaga province, Andalusia
  • CD Rincón, a football club located in the city
• Rincón de Soto, village in the La Rioja community

Other

• Chilean recluse spider, known in Spanish as araña de rincón
• Honda Rincon, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) made by Honda from 2003-present
• Rincon, the development code-name of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7
• Rincon, a mountain bike made by Giant Bicycles
• Rincon Sea Level Road, roadway built in 1913 using wooden causeways on the coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara, California
• Rincon 1, a satellite built at the University of Arizona

See also

• El Rincón (disambiguation)