Cara
# 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
* Surname:
* 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 (1959–2022), 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 Arriaga
* Sin Cara, a former ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Luis Ignacio Urive Alvirde, better known by the ring name Místico
* Cara, an Albanian family 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 that administers the MPA 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, a synonym for Anadara, a genus of molluscs
* 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
