Cara

Cara or CARA may refer to:

Places

Čara, a village on the island of Korčula, Croatia
Cara, a village in Cojocna Commune, Cluj County, Romania
Cara Island, off the west coast of Argyll, Scotland
Cara Paraná River, Colombia
Cara Sucia River, El Salvador
Monte Cara, a mountain in the Republic of Cape Verde
Mount Cara, a peak in Antarctica

People

Cara (given name), a given name for females
Alessia Cara, Canadian singer
Ana Cara, Argentine creolist, translator, and professor
Jean-Paul Cara (born 1948), a French singer and composer
Dominic "Mac" Anthony Cara (1914–1993), an American football end
Gaetano Cara (1803–1877), Italian archaeologist and naturalist primarily interested in ornithology
Irene Cara (born 1959), American singer and actress
Marchetto Cara (c. 1470 – c. 1520), Italian composer of the Renaissance
Nafissa Sid Cara (or Nafissa Sidkara; 1910–2002), a French politician
Sin Cara, ring name of Mexican-American professional wrestler Jorge Arias
Sin Cara, a former ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Luis Ignacio Urive Alvirde, better known by the ring name Místico
Cara, an Albanian last name

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Cara Diana Hunter, protagonist of The Unicorn Chronicles
Cara (Sword of Truth), a character in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
Cara, a character in the OEL manga Next Exit

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, an influential Chicano art exhibition that toured in the 1990s
Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award, an award given by the Contemporary A Cappella Society

Brands and enterprises

Cara Operations, a franchise which owns restaurant chains

Organizations

CARA Brazzaville, a football club in the Republic of the Congo
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, a Catholic social science research center located at Georgetown University.
Center of Administration of the Anosy Region, an NGO working for sustainable development in Tôlanaro, Madagascar
Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), an organization within the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India
Classification and Rating Administration, a division of the Motion Picture Association of America that administers the MPAA film rating system
Compassion and Responsibility for Animals, a non-profit animal welfare group in the Philippines
Council for At-Risk Academics, previously Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, a charitable organization

Other uses

Cara (horse) (1836–1857), British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
Cara cara navel, a type of orange
Cara culture, an Andean civilization
Cara Cup, an international professional rugby union tournament
Cara language, a small Plateau language of Nigeria
Combined altitude radar altimeter, a radar altimeter with both analog and digital displays
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), a piece of US federal legislation enacted to fight addiction
Constant absolute risk aversion, a term in Economics referring to a property of the exponential utility function

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