Cara or CARA may refer to:

Places

* Čara, a village on the island of Korčula, Croatia * Cara, a village in

Cojocna Cojocna ( hu, Kolozs; german: Salzgrub, Klosmarkt) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Boj-Cătun (''Bósi alagút''), Boju (''Kolozsbós''), Cara (''Kolozskara''), Cojocna, Huci (''Cserealja''), Iu ...

Commune, Cluj County, Romania * Cara Island, off the west coast of Argyll, Scotland *

Cara Paraná River Cara Paraná River is a river of Colombia. It is part of the Amazon River basin and is a tributary of the Putumayo River. See also *List of rivers of Colombia Atlantic Ocean Amazon River Basin * Amazon River ** Guainía River or Negro River ...

, Colombia *

Cara Sucia River Cara Sucia River is a river of El Salvador. It arises in the foothills of the El Imposible National Park and flows westward through the area of Cara Sucia in the Ahuachapán Department region to a bay near El Zapote EL, El or el may refer to: ...

, El Salvador *

Monte Cara Monte Cara is a mountain in western part of the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Its elevation is 490 m.Mount Cara, a peak in Antarctica

People

* Cara (given name) * Cara (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

*Cara Diana Hunter, protagonist of ''

The Unicorn Chronicles The Unicorn Chronicles is a series of young adult fantasy novels by Bruce Coville set in a fantasy world, Luster, that lies parallel to our own. Within this realm exist all sorts of fantastical and mythological beasts, from the familiar unicorn ...

'' * 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 (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 The Motion Picture Association film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a motion picture's suitability for certain audiences based on its content. The system and the ratings applied to individual motion pictures ...

, 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 Compassion and Responsibility for Animals (CARA) is a registered non-profit, non-government animal welfare organization in the Philippines. It was founded in 2000 by a group of animal lovers determined to help the plight of animals in the Phili ...

, a non-profit animal welfare group in the Philippines *

Council for At-Risk Academics The Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) is a charitable British organisation dedicated to assisting academics in immediate danger, those forced into exile, and many who choose to remain in their home countries despite the serious risks they face ...

, 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 The Cara cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orange believed to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a Washington navel orange tree. A botanical sport discovered at the Hacienda Caracara i ...

, a type of orange * Cara culture, an Andean civilization * Cara Cup, an international professional rugby union tournament *

Cara language Cara (Chara, Fachara), also called Teriya after the village it is spoken in, is a small Plateau language of central Nigeria. Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village, Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjí ...

, a small Plateau language of Nigeria *

Combined altitude radar altimeter A radar altimeter (RA), also called a radio altimeter (RALT), electronic altimeter, reflection altimeter, or low-range radio altimeter (LRRA), measures altitude above the terrain presently beneath an aircraft or spacecraft by timing how long it t ...

, a radar altimeter with both analog and digital displays *

Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) was signed into law by President Obama on July 22, 2016. The bill was introduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner as the first major federal addiction act in 40 y ...

, a piece of US federal legislation enacted to fight addiction *

Constant absolute risk aversion In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if the average outcome of the latter is equal to or higher in monetary value than the more ce ...

, a term in Economics referring to a property of the exponential utility function