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Santisima Trinidad may refer to:
  • The fortress of Santísima Trinidad
    Santísima Trinidad (fort)
    Santísima Trinidad or Most Holy Trinity was a fortress in the Kingdom of Chile that existed on the north shore of the Bio-Bio River in what is now the Biobío Province. It was built directly across the river from Fort Espíritu Santo by the Royal Governor of Chile Alonso de Sotomayor in 1585...

     in the Kingdom of Chile that existed on the north shore of the Bio Bio River in what is now the commune of Laja in the Biobío Province of Chile.
  • Santísima Trinidad, a barrio (district) in Asunción, Paraguay. The football club Sportivo Trinidense is based there.
  • La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná
    La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná
    La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná, or the Holy Trinity of Paraná is the name of a former Jesuit mission in Paraguay. It is an example of one of the many Jesuit Reductions, small colonies established by the missionaries in various locations in South America throughout the 17th and 18th century...

    , a former Jesuit mission in Paraguay.
  • Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

    , Argentina. The original name for the city after it was moved to the present site in 1580 by Juan de Garay was Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad, Puerto de Buenos Aires.
  • Santísima Trinidad was in the early 20th Century an alternative title of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

    .

  • A number of Ships have had the name Santisima Trinidad including:
    • A series of Spanish warships , including:
      • The Spanish ship-of-the-line Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad (1769), the biggest warship in the world in its time, which sank after the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).

    • Other nations have also named their warships Santísima Trinidad, including:
      • ARA Santísima Trinidad, a frigate that participated in the Argentine War of Independence
        Argentine War of Independence
        The Argentine War of Independence was fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown...

        . In 1815-16 Santísima Trinidad was commanded by Miguel Brown, and then by Admiral William Brown. (See mundoandino.com Hippolyte de Bouchard)
      • ARA Santísima Trinidad (1948)
        ARA Santísima Trinidad (1948)
        The ARA Santisima Trinidad was one of a number of US Tacoma class patrol frigates, operated by the Argentine Navy during the Cold War period...

        , ex-HMS Caicos, a patrol frigate of the US Tacoma class, which served in the Armada Republica Argentina from 1948. In 1963 this ship became a survey vessel and was renamed Comodoro Augusto Lasserre. She was sold in 1970 or 1971.
      • ARA Santísima Trinidad (1974), a Type 42 destroyer, of the Armada Republica Argentina.