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 Cojocna (; ) 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''), Iuriu de Câmpie (''Mezőőr''), Morișt ...

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 right tributary of the Putumayo River. See also *List of rivers of Colombia Atlantic Ocean Amazon River Basin * Amazon River ** Guainía River or Ne ...

, 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 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 is a feminine given name with multiple origins in different languages. It is often considered a spelling variant of the name Kara (given name), Kara. As an English name, it is usually considered a modern spelling variant of the Italian langua ...

* Cara (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

*Cara Eisenberg, a character in the American sitcom television series ''

The Hogan Family ''The Hogan Family'' (originally titled ''Valerie'' and later ''Valerie's Family: The Hogans'') is an American sitcom television series that began airing on NBC on March 1, 1986, and finished its run on CBS on July 20, 1991, for a total of si ...

'' *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 Club Athlétique Renaissance Aiglon Brazzaville, known simply as CARA Brazzaville, is a Congolese football club based in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, playing games out of the Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat. The club won the 1974 African C ...

, 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 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 ''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) Cara (1836–1857) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse in 1839. The filly was lightly campaigned, running six races in three seasons and winning twice. She was one of th ...

(1836–1857), British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare *

Cara Cara navel orange The Cara Cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orange noted for its pinkish-to-reddish-orange flesh. It is believed to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a "standard" Washington navel oran ...

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 The Cara Cup was an international club rugby union competition between the teams of the New England Free Jacks, of Major League Rugby, Connacht, Ulster, Munster, and Leinster, academy sides of Irish Pro14 teams. History On November 9, 2018, This ...

, 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, officially the ...

, 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), 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