Faro may refer to:

Places

Africa

  • Faro (department), North Province, Cameroon
  • Faro National Park, Cameroon
  • Faro River, tributary of the Benue River

Americas

  • Faro, Pará, Brazil, a municipality
  • Faro, Yukon, Canada, a town
  • Faro (Canadian electoral district)
  • Faro Airport (Yukon)
  • Faro/Johnson Lake Water Aerodrome
  • Faro, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community
  • Faro, North Carolina, US, an unincorporated community

Europe

  • Faro (Portuguese district), the southern district covering the Algarve in southern Portugal
  • Faro, Portugal, the municipality and main city of the district
  • Faro Airport, the main regional airport in the district
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Faro, serving the district
  • Farø, an island in Denmark
  • Fårö, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea
  • Faro Point, the northeastern point of Sicily, Italy

Extraterrestrial

  • 9358 Fårö, a main belt asteroid

People

  • Saint Faro, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meaux, France
  • Faro (surname)
  • Faro, pen name of editors Faith and A. Ross Eckler Jr. (1927–2016)

FARO

  • Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente, a cultural center and training facility in Mexico City
  • Grupo FARO (Foundation for the Advance of Reforms and Opportunities), a think tank in Ecuador

Other uses

  • Faro (card game), a popular form of gambling predating poker
  • Faro (beer), a type of Belgian ale
  • Count of Faro, a Portuguese title of nobility
  • Faro (mythology), a deity prominent in the Mandé creation narrative
  • Buddy Faro, a 1998 television series, or the title character portrayed by Dennis Farina
  • Faro, a liturgical item burned in Ambrosian Rite churches on feasts of martyrs
  • Faro (restaurant), a defunct Michelin star establishment in New York City, US
  • Faro, a small atoll that may form with other faros into a greater atoll, in the language of the Maldives

See also

  • El Faro (disambiguation)
  • Odmar Færø (born 1989), Faroese footballer
  • Faroe Islands
  • Faroe (disambiguation)
  • Faros (disambiguation)
  • Farro, a wheat plant also known as Emmer
  • Ferro (disambiguation)
  • Pharao, a German Eurodance band
  • Pharaoh (disambiguation)
  • Faros (disambiguation)
  • Faros, a Greek village
  • Pharo (disambiguation)
  • Pharo, programming language
  • Pharos (disambiguation)