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La Mano 1.9 (musician)

La Mano 1.9 is a French drill rapper from the 19th arrondissement of Paris, whose debut album R.A.T reached number 5 in France in 2025.

La Maquinaria Norteña

La Maquinaria Norteña is a Mexican norteño group formed in 2006 in Chihuahua by saxophonist Keith Nieto, known for a saxophone-and-accordion sound and Billboard No. 1s.

La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol

La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol, shortened to La M.O.D.A., is a Spanish folk-rock band from Burgos formed in 2011, known for its winds and live performances.

La Mare de Tabalak

La Mare de Tabalak (Ramsar site no. 1494) is a permanent freshwater pond in Tahoua Region, central Niger, designated 16 September 2005; three basins (Sillalé, Fallé, Kéhéhé), a waterbird refuge with 14% of the Egyptian goose population, threatened by silting, drought, and pollution.

La Marmora

Punta La Marmora (Perdas Carpìas), 1,834 m in the Gennargentu massif, is Sardinia's highest peak, named for general-naturalist Alberto Ferrero della Marmora; Paleozoic schist summit in Arzana and Desulo.

La Marseillaise

La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, written by Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg in April 1792 as Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin; named after Marseille volunteers, declared national song in 1795 and anthem of the Third Republic in 1879.

La Más Draga

La Más Draga is a Mexican drag competition web series produced by La Gran Diabla since 2018, streamed free on YouTube, a 'tropicalized' Drag Race variant with seven seasons and the Sólo Las Más spin-off.

La Masia

La Masia, FC Barcelona's youth academy and development philosophy, founded 1979 in a 1702 farmhouse, moved to the Ciutat Esportiva in 2011; produced Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Yamal; 49.3% of 2024-25 La Liga minutes.

La Materialista

La Materialista is the stage name of Yameiry Infante Honoret, a Dominican rapper and pioneer of female rap, known for "Las Chapas Que Vibran" (2014).

La mayor

La mayor, Spanish for "the eldest," is how Victoria Ocampo, the eldest of the six Ocampo sisters, is distinguished from her sisters, notably the writer Silvina Ocampo; she founded the magazine Sur.

La medicina del lavoro

La Medicina del Lavoro (Il Lavoro until 1925) is an Italian bimonthly occupational medicine journal founded in 1901 by Luigi Devoto, official journal of SIML, the world's oldest occupational health journal still publishing, with 100+ volumes and a 2025 impact factor of 2.1.

La Mega (WSKQ-FM)

La Mega (WSKQ-FM) is a Spanish-language radio station at 97.9 FM in New York City, owned by Spanish Broadcasting System and known for salsa, reggaeton, and urbano music.

La Mer (song)

La Mer is a 1943 French song by Charles Trenet with Léo Chauliac, first recorded by Roland Gerbeau in 1945 and by Trenet in March 1946 (Columbia DF 3096). Its English adaptation Beyond the Sea, notably Bobby Darin's 1959 hit, distinguishes it from Debussy's 1905 orchestral La Mer.

La Michilía Biosphere Reserve

La Michilía Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Michilía), 35,000 ha in Durango, Mexico, decreed 18 July 1979; with Mapimí the first biosphere reserve in Mexico and Latin America, MAB-UNESCO since 1979, protecting Sierra Madre Occidental temperate forests.

La Mojarra Stela 1

La Mojarra Stela 1 is a carved Mesoamerican monument recovered from the Acula River, Veracruz, Mexico, in 1986, bearing one of the longest inscriptions of the still undeciphered Epi-Olmec script.

La Montaña

La Montaña names several Latin American regions: La Montaña de Guerrero (indigenous region, 10,775.4 km², 17.81% of Guerrero state), the colonial Yucatán-Guatemala frontier forest, Peru's eastern forest belt, a Colombian resguardo, and a Guatemalan Maya-Xinka corridor.

La Mort de Staline

La Mort de Staline (The Death of Stalin): two-volume French graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin (Dargaud, 2010 and 2012) on Stalin's 1953 death and the succession struggle, adapted into Armando Iannucci's 2017 satirical film banned in Russia.

La Mosca

La Mosca is a peripheral neighborhood in Málaga's Este district, Spain, on the Arroyo Jaboneros, home to U.D. La Mosca football club (founded 1993), the Pabellón La Mosca, and the San Antón Night Trail; the name also denotes an Argentine band and a New Mexico lookout.

La Movida Madrileña

La Movida Madrileña: Spanish counter-cultural movement of the late 1970s and 1980s centered in Madrid during the democratic transition; punk and new wave bands (Alaska, Nacha Pop, Radio Futura), Almodóvar's cinema, and founding tribute concert for Canito on 9 February 1980.

La muerte del cisne

La muerte del cisne (The Death of the Swan) is a 1915 book of poems by the Mexican poet Enrique González Martínez, published in Mexico City.

La mujer del diablo

La mujer del diablo (The Devil's Woman) is a 2022–2023 Mexican ViX+ drama series by Leonardo Padrón, starring Carolina Miranda and José Ron as a teacher and an obsessed criminal in the fictional town of Villa Clara; distinct from a 1974 film of the same name.

La Murette de Oukam

La Murette de Oukam is a surf school and surfing spot in Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal, on the Corniche-Ouest near Plage Ouakam and the Mosquée de la Divinité, mapped in OpenStreetMap at 14.71552 N, 17.49177 W.

La Negra Tiene Tumbao

"La Negra Tiene Tumbao" is a 2001 song by Cuban singer Celia Cruz, written by Sergio George and Fernando Osorio, fusing salsa with reggaetón rhythms and reaching No. 4 on Billboard's tropical airplay chart.

La Neuve Formation

La Neuve (gisement de La Neuve) is a late Campanian (Begudian) fossil locality in the Arc syncline, Aix-en-Provence Basin, near Trets, France, yielding sandstone-hosted dinosaur eggshell, theropod teeth, gar fish, mammals, and salamanders; sources give no formal formation name.

La Niña (singer)

La Niña is the stage name of Carola Moccia (born 1991), a Neapolitan singer-songwriter and producer fusing Neapolitan folklore with electronics; albums Vanitas (2023) and Furèsta (2025), Targa Tenco winner.

La Nona

La Nona is a 1977 tragicomedy by the Argentine playwright Roberto Cossa, in which a Buenos Aires family of Italian immigrant descent is ruined by its centenarian grandmother's insatiable hunger.

La Nord

La Nord is the powerful expert-level sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor, Landes, France, shaped by the gouf de Capbreton canyon; it hosts the Rip Curl Challenge La Nord big-wave contest each winter.

La Nouvelle Revue française

La Nouvelle Revue française (NRF) is a prestigious French literary review founded in Paris in 1909 by a group led by André Gide, later giving its name to Éditions Gallimard.

La oficina (TV series)

La Oficina is the Mexican Prime Video adaptation of The Office, a mockumentary workplace comedy set at soap maker Jabones Olimpo in Aguascalientes. Premiered March 13, 2026, eight episodes, led by Fernando Bonilla as Jerónimo Ponce III, directed by Gaz Alazraki, renewed for 2027.

La Onda

La Onda, a Mexican literary movement of the mid-1960s led by José Agustín and Gustavo Sainz, wrote about urban middle-class youth in colloquial language as part of the counterculture.