Kiva (disambiguation)
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A kiva is a room used by modern Puebloans for religious rituals, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies....

is a room used by modern Puebloan people for religious rituals.

Kiva may also refer to:
  • Kiva (album)
    Kiva (album)
    Kiva is a collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach, Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger. A kiva is an underground ceremonial chamber used by Native American cultures of the Southwest....

    , 1995 ambient music album by Steve Roach, Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger
  • Kiva (musician)
    Kiva (musician)
    Kiva is a Canadian harmonic overtone singer keyboard player and songwriter, based in Prague, Czech Republic. She is internationally recognized as a western pioneer in world beat/jazz music, particularly the art of harmonic overtone singing which she both performs and teaches...

    , Canadian overtone singer/ keyboardist
  • Kiva (organization)
    Kiva (organization)
    Kiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries around the world and in the United States, which in turn lend the money to small businesses and students...

    , a non-profit organization that promotes development through microcredit
  • Kiva Systems
    Kiva Systems
    Kiva Systems is a company that makes order fulfillment systems that use mobile robots for warehouse automation. Its material handling systems are used by Staples, Walgreens, GAP, Crate and Barrel, Toys "R" Us and Gilt Groupe, among others.-Overview:...

    , a robotics company
  • Kiva Dunes
    Kiva Dunes
    Kiva Dunes is a public golf course located in Baldwin County, just west of Gulf Shores, Alabama. The course was designed by professional golfer Jerry Pate, and was immediately ranked #2 in Golf Digest's Best New Public Course when it opened in 1995. More recently, the publication ranked the course...

    , public golf course in Alabama
  • Kiva Kahl
    Kiva Kahl
    Kiva Kahl was born in Russia and is primarily known for her stage persona, Grinder Girl, in which she dresses in a metallic outfit and uses an angle grinder to spray sparks into the air, onto herself, and onto others. Kahl has appeared on stage in North America, Europe, and Asia. She also...

    , known as the Grinder Girl on The Late Show with David Letterman
  • Kiva, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Alger County
  • Kamen Rider Kiva
    Kamen Rider Kiva
    is the title of the 2008 Kamen Rider Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions. It premiered on January 27, 2008, following the finale of Kamen Rider Den-O. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2008 Super Hero Time block with Engine Sentai Go-onger...

    , a 2008 Japanese tokusatsu series
  • Khanate of Khiva
    Khanate of Khiva
    The Khanate of Khiva was the name of a Uzbek state that existed in the historical region of Khwarezm from 1511 to 1920, except for a period of Persian occupation by Nadir Shah between 1740–1746. It was the patrilineal descendants of Shayban , the fifth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan...

    , a former Central Asian kingdom
  • Kiva, a character in the animated television series Megas XLR
    Megas XLR
    Megas XLR is an American animated television series that aired on the Toonami block on Cartoon Network and is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic...

  • Kiva, a human Lucian Alliance commander in the television series Stargate Universe
  • Kiva, Estonia
    Kiva, Estonia
    Kiva is a village in Vihula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia....

    , village in Vihula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia


KIVA may refer to:
  • KIVA (software)
    KIVA (software)
    KIVA is a family of Fortran-based Computational Fluid Dynamics software developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory . The software predicts complex fuel and air flows as well as ignition, combustion, and pollutant-formation processes in engines...

    , a family of Computational Fluid Dynamics software developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • KIVA (AM), a radio station (1550 AM) licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
  • KIVA (TV), a defunct television station in Yuma, Arizona, United States
  • KSSR-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Santa Rosa, New Mexico
    Santa Rosa, New Mexico
    Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,744 at the 2000 census. It lies between Albuquerque and Tucumcari, situated on the Pecos River at the intersection of Interstate 40, U.S. Route 54, and U.S. Route 84...

    , United States, known as KIVA from 2002 to 2009
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