Alfonsina y el Mar (“Alfonsina and the Sea”) is a zamba (a folkloric musical genre typical of South America) composed by the Argentine pianist Ariel Ramirez and lyricist Felix Luna in 1969.

The song is a homage to Alfonsina Storni, an Argentine poet and teacher, who took her own life by jumping into the ocean in 1938. She was a student of Ariel Ramirez’s father, Zenon Ramirez. Newspapers from the time of her death say that when her remains arrived in Buenos Aires, there were more than 2000 people waiting for her; among them hundreds of former students between the ages of 10 and 20 years old.