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 Cara Island ( gd, Cara) is a small island which is located off the west coast of Kintyre in Scotland. Geography and etymology Cara is south of Gigha. It is accessible from Gigha. Cara has a translation in Gaelic as "dearest" or "dear one". C ...

, 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 is a female given name in several languages. It is of Latin, Greek, and Celtic origin. It has been frequently used mostly in recent times, especially in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. and can also be used as a short form for the name Caralee. C ...

, a given name for females *Surname: *

Alessia Cara Alessia Caracciolo (born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara (), is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Born in Mississauga, Ontario, to Italian Canadian parents, she began posting covers of songs on YouTube at age 13. After uploadi ...

, Canadian singer *

Ana Cara Ana C. Cara is an Argentine creolist, translator, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. She graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972, from University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Arts in Folklore and Fo ...

, Argentine creolist, translator, and professor *

Jean-Paul Cara Jean-Paul Cara (born 9 September 1948, Montpellier) is a French singer and composer. He has authored several songs that have won prizes at the Eurovision contest, most notably the single '' L'Oiseau et l'Enfant'' in collaboration with Joe Grac ...

(born 1948), a French singer and composer * Dominic "Mac" Anthony Cara (1914–1993), an American football end *

Gaetano Cara A forged Sardinian idols by Gaetano Cara Gaetano Cara (1803 – 1877) was an Italian archaeologist and naturalist primarily interested in ornithology. He practiced forgery and selling forged idols to many European museums. Gaetano Cara was Direc ...

(1803–1877), Italian archaeologist and naturalist primarily interested in ornithology *

Irene Cara Irene Cara Escalera (March 18, 1959 – November 25, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and actress of Black, Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. Cara rose to prominence for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film '' Fame'', and f ...

(1959–2022), American singer and actress *

Marchetto Cara Marchetto Cara (c. 1465 – probably 1525) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the Renaissance. He was mainly active in Mantua, was well-connected with the Gonzaga and Medici families, and along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was ...

(c. 1470 – c. 1520), Italian composer of the Renaissance *

Nafissa Sid Cara Nafissa Sid-Cara or Nafissa Sidkara. (18 April 1910, in El Eulma, Algeria - 1 January 2002, Paris, France) was a French politician. Sid-Cara was the first female minister to serve in the French Fifth Republic as well as the first ever Algerian ori ...

(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 Luis Ignacio Urive Alvirde (born December 22, 1982), better known by his ring name Místico (Spanish for "Mystic"), is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' (or masked professional wrestler), who currently works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Li ...

* Cara, an Albanian family name

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 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 Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

. *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 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 *

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) 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 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 Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

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