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Patagonia
Patagonia: region at the southern end of South America shared by Argentina and Chile, divided by the Andes, named for legendary giants; sheep ranching economy, major tourism brand, and intensifying wildfires and glacier loss.
Patagonia Azul Biosphere Reserve
Patagonia Azul Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Patagonia Azul), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2015 on Chubut Province's Atlantic coast, Argentina; 3,102,005 ha, mostly marine, with Punta Tombo's Magellanic penguins and the 2025 Patagonia Azul Provincial Park.
Patagonia Rebelde
Patagonia Rebelde, also called Patagonia Trágica, was the anarcho-syndicalist rural workers' strike movement in Santa Cruz, Argentina, from 1920 to 1922, ending in army repression.
Patagonia, Inc.
Patagonia, Inc. is an American outdoor apparel company founded in 1973 in Ventura, California by climber Yvon Chouinard, grown from Chouinard Equipment pitons; B Corp certified, 1% of sales to environmental groups, and since 2022 owned by the Patagonia Purpose Trust and Holdfast Collective.
Patagonian Afrikaans
Patagonian Afrikaans is the nearly extinct expatriate variety of Afrikaans spoken in Chubut, Argentina, by descendants of about 600 Boers who emigrated in 1902-1907 after the Anglo-Boer War, preserving pre-1925, pre-standardization Afrikaans with Spanish contact features.
Patagonian mara
Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum), also called Patagonian cavy or hare: a large long-legged monogamous rodent of arid Argentina, 8-16 kg, near threatened, with communal-den pup rearing and a feral population in Dubai.
Patagonian toothfish
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), sold as Chilean sea bass or mero, a deep-water southern-ocean fish up to 2 m long, fished by bottom longline and managed by CCAMLR amid past IUU fishing.
Patagonian Welsh
Patagonian Welsh (Cymraeg y Wladfa) is the Welsh dialect of Chubut Province, Argentina, founded by settlers in 1865; about 5,000 speakers, Spanish-influenced phonetics and vocabulary, supported since 1997 by the Welsh Language Project.
Patagonian wool boom
The Patagonian wool boom was the expansion of sheep ranching across Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego from 1877, turning the frontier into a wool-export economy of giant estancias.
Patagotitan
Patagotitan mayorum, the titanosaur from La Flecha ranch, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina; gigantic Early Cretaceous sauropod (~101 Ma) known from six individuals, ~37 m long, mass estimates 42.5–71.4 tonnes.
Patah
Patah (Gunung Patah) is a forested, eroded Quaternary stratovolcano, 2,836 m, in southern Sumatra's Sunda Arc SE of Dempo; no known Holocene eruptions, but a fumarolic 150-m crater was photographed nearby in 1989.
Patala (पाताल)
Patala (पाताल), in Hindu cosmology, the seven-layered subterranean netherworld beneath the earth, home of nagas and asuras; distinct from Naraka, described as splendid rather than punitive; seven lokas from Atala to Patala in the Puranas.
Patalene
Patalene, the Greek name for the Indus delta in ancient sources, named after its capital Patala; visited by Alexander, departure point of Nearchus' 325 BC fleet voyage, later under Bactrian Greeks and Śakas.
Paṭali
Paṭali (पाटलि), also Pāṭaliya, is a village chief in the Pāṭaliya Sutta (SN 42.13) who questions the Buddha about magic and becomes a lay follower.
Pataliputra (पाटलिपुत्र)
Pataliputra (पाटलिपुत्र; Pali Pataliputta, Greek Palibothra), ancient capital of Magadha and the Maurya and Gupta empires at modern Patna, Bihar; founded as Ajatashatru's Pataligrama fort, described by Megasthenes with a 570-tower wooden palisade, excavated at Kumrahar and Bulandi Bagh.
Patan Academy of Health Sciences
Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS), a public not-for-profit health sciences university in Lalitpur, Nepal, established 2008 by parliament; runs Patan Hospital and schools of medicine, public health, and nursing for rural health workforce training.
Patan patola
Patan patola is a double ikat silk sari and ceremonial cloth woven in Patan, Gujarat, India, where each sari takes six months to a year to complete.
Patan, Gujarat
Patan (Anhilpur Patan), Gujarat: medieval capital of the Chavda and Solanki dynasties, home to the UNESCO World Heritage stepwell Rani-ki-Vav (2014) and the double ikat Patola silk sari tradition.
Patang (2025 film)
Patang (పతంగ్) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-drama, Praneeth Prattipati's directorial debut, starring Pranav Kaushik, Preethi Pagadala, and Vamsi Pujit. Released 25 December 2025, it follows a love triangle settled by a kite-flying contest in Hyderabad.
Patania II
Patania II is a 33.5-ton tracked deep-sea robot built by Global Sea Mineral Resources that collects polymetallic nodules, first operating in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in 2021.
Patanjali
Patanjali (पतञ्जलि) is the name of one or more ancient Indian scholars credited with the Mahabhashya grammar (2nd century BCE), the Yogasutra (c. 400 CE), and a lost medical work; scholarship treats the grammarian and yoga compiler as distinct.
Patanjali Ayurved (पतंजलि आयुर्वेद)
Patanjali Ayurved (पतंजलि आयुर्वेद), Indian FMCG and ayurvedic products company founded in Haridwar in 1997 and incorporated 2006; Ramdev-associated, 98.54% owned by Acharya Balkrishna, turnover Rs 7,413.62 crores FY2022-23.
Patapsco River
The Patapsco River is a major Maryland river that flows generally southeast into the Chesapeake Bay. Its valley is known as the cradle of the state's Industrial Revolution.
Patapsco Valley State Park
Patapsco Valley State Park, founded 1907 as the Patapsco Forest Reserve, is Maryland's oldest state park: 16,043 acres along 32 miles of the Patapsco River, over 200 miles of trails, a CCC camp that became the nation's first conscientious objector camp, and the Thomas Viaduct.
Patapsco Vallis
Patapsco Vallis is a 152.51-km valley on Mars on the Elysium Mons volcanic complex, entering Elysium Fossae; IAU-named in 1985 for the Patapsco River, Maryland, and likely lava-carved rather than water-carved.
Patara (Cappadocia)
Patara (Cappadocia) is a road station in Lesser Armenia on the Trapezus–Satala route, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana and generally identified with Madenhanları, distinct from the Lycian port city of Patara.
Patara (Lycia)
Patara (Lycian Pttara, Hittite Patar), ancient Lycian port city near Gelemiş, Türkiye; Apollo oracle, Lycian League capital with three votes, Roman provincial capital, birthplace of St. Nicholas, site of Nero's 64/65 CE lighthouse.
Patara Elephant Farm
Patara Elephant Farm is a privately owned elephant facility in Hang Dong, south-west of Chiang Mai, Thailand, offering hands-on tourist programs in which visitors feed, bathe, and ride elephants.
Patari
Patari is a Pakistani music and audio streaming platform based in Lahore, founded in February 2015 as the first Pakistani platform to pay royalties to musicians.
Patatin-like phospholipase domain
Patatin-like phospholipase domain (PNPLA domain, Pfam PF01734): a Ser-Asp dyad lipid-hydrolysis domain named after potato patatin, defining nine human PNPLA enzymes acting on triacylglycerols or phospholipids.