Palomar

Palomar is a Spanish word meaning dovecote. The term may refer to:

Places

• Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
  • Palomar Mountain
    • Palomar Mountain, California, an unincorporated community
  • Palomar College in San Marcos, California
    • Palomar College Transit Center
  • Palomar Health, a healthcare district covering a portion of the county
    • Palomar Medical Center Escondido in Escondido, California
    • Palomar Medical Center Poway in Poway, California
  • McClellan–Palomar Airport, informally referred to as just Palomar Airport, in Carlsbad, California
  • Palomar Street Transit Center in Chula Vista, California
• Palomar Ballroom, in Los Angeles, California
• Palomar (bar), in Portland, Oregon
• Palomar Hills, Lexington, a neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky
• Hotel Palomar (Washington, D.C.)
• El Palomar, Buenos Aires, a city in Argentina
  • El Palomar (airbase), Argentina
• El Palomar, Valencia, a municipality in Spain
• Palomar de Arroyos, a town in Aragón, Spain

Music

• Palomar (band), a band from Brooklyn, New York
• Palomar, a band formed by three members of Paw
• "Palomar", a 1992 song by the Rheostatics from Whale Music

Astronomy

• Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain in San Diego County, California
  • National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, often known as just Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
  • Palomar Distant Solar System Survey
  • Palomar globular clusters, a set of globular clusters discovered by the POSS
  • Palomar–Leiden survey
  • Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
  • Palomar Testbed Interferometer
  • Palomar Transient Factory

Other uses

• Palomar (comics), a 2003 graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez
• Palomar Handicap, former name for the Yellow Ribbon Handicap, a horse race in Del Mar, California
• Palomar knot
• Palomar Pictures International, a subsidiary of ABC Pictures
• Palomar S.p.A., an Italian television production company

People with the surname

• Arnau de Palomar (fl. c. 1150), Catalan nobleman
• Daniel Palomar, electrical engineer
• Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (1907–1978), Mexican architect
• Jared Palomar, member of Augustana

See also

• Mr. Palomar, a 1983 novel by Italo Calvino
• Palomares (disambiguation)