The
imaginary floating island full of whores defined in Gulliver's Travels, a novel that is written by
Jonathan Swift. It's "full of whores" because "la puta" in Spanish (and maybe in Catalan and Filipino) means the whore, which Swift knew and got the name for his island.
This makes
everything named after it sound hilarious, for example :
Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa -> Whore in the sky
Mazda Laputa -> Mazda's whore car
Laputa Regio (region of Phobos, a moon of Mars) -> Whore region