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)
  • Cara (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Cara Eisenberg, a character in the American sitcom television series The Hogan Family
  • 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
  • "Cara" (Gunsmoke), a 1956 television episode

Brands and enterprises

  • Cara (app), an art platform for artists with an anti-AI art stance
  • 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
  • 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 that administers the MPA film rating system
  • Committee for Centers and Regional Associations of the Medieval Academy of America
  • 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, a synonym for Anadara, a genus of molluscs
  • Cara (horse) (1836–1857), British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
  • Cara Cara navel 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
  • Control of Alien Refugees Act 1960 in Uganda.

See also

  • Cara Sucia (disambiguation)
  • Caras (disambiguation)
  • Carra (disambiguation)
  • Chara (disambiguation)
  • Kara (disambiguation)
  • Khara (disambiguation)