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Cara or CARA may refer to:
Places[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Fictional characters[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Cara Operations, a franchise which owns restaurant chains
Organizations[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
See also[edit]
- Cara Sucia (disambiguation)
- Caras (disambiguation)
- Carra (disambiguation)
- Chara (disambiguation)
- Kara (disambiguation)
- Khara (disambiguation)
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