Cara or CARA may refer to:

Places

Čara Čara is a village on the island of Korčula in Croatia. Korčula the island, is part of the Dalmatian coast and it belongs to the Dubrovnik-Neretva county. The village is situated twenty-five kilometers west of the old town of Korčula (town), Ko ...

, 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 Cara Sucia River is a river of El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocea ...

, 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

Brands and enterprises

* Cara (app), an art platform for artists with an anti-AI art stance *

Cara Operations Recipe Unlimited Corporation is a Canadian company that operates several restaurant chains such as Swiss Chalet, Harvey's and The Keg, and food distribution for large operations. The company was originated in 1883 as Canada Railway News Comp ...

, 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 The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until ) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes the q ...

* Compassion and Responsibility for Animals, 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 ''Anadara'' is a genus of seawater, saltwater bivalves, ark clams, in the family (biology), family Arcidae. It is also called ''Scapharca''. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range ...

'', a genus of molluscs * Cara (horse) (1836–1857), British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare * Cara Cara navel orange *

Cara culture The Cara or Caranqui culture flourished in coastal Ecuador, in what is now Manabí Province, in the first millennium CE. History In the 10th century AD, they followed the Esmeraldas River up to the high Andean valley of Caranqui. They were ofte ...

, 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