Carrion Carrion () is the decaying flesh of dead animals, including human flesh. Overview Carrion is an important food source for large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, c ...

refers to the carcass of a dead animal. Carion, Carrion or Carrión may also refer to:

Geography

* Carion, Madagascar, former name of

Nandihizana Nandihizana is a municipality in Madagascar. Its previous name was Carion. It belongs to the district of Manjakandriana, which is a part of Analamanga Region. The population of this municipality was estimated to be approximately 5,000 in 2001 com ...

* Carrión (river), a river in Spain *

Carrión de Calatrava Carrión de Calatrava is a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The castle of Calatrava la Vieja Calatrava la Vieja (formerly just ''Calatrava'') is a medieval site and original nucleus of the Order of Calatra ...

, a municipality in central Spain * Carrión de los Céspedes, a municipality in southern Spain *

Carrión de los Condes Carrión de los Condes () is a municipality in the province of Palencia, part of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León, Spain. It is 40 kilometers from Palencia, on the French Way of the Way of Saint James. History Carrión de los Condes ...

, a municipality in northern Spain

People

Adolfo Carrión, Jr. Adolfo may refer to: * Adolfo, São Paulo, a Brazilian municipality * Adolfo (designer), Cuban-born American fashion designer * Adolfo or Adolf, a given name See also

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, a Bronx politician * Alejandro Carrión, an Ecuadorian writer and journalist *

Audrey Carrion Audrey J. S. Carrion (born July 16, 1958) is an American judge who has served as an associate judge on the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Baltimore, Maryland since 1999. Early life Carrion was born on July 16, 1958, in New York City, New York. Sh ...

, an American judge * Benjamín Carrión, an Ecuadorian writer *

Clodoveo Carrión Mora Clodoveo Carrión Mora (1883–1957) was a palaeontologist and naturalist who is regarded as the most prolific and erudite natural scientist of Ecuador of the 20th century. Early years Clodoveo Carrión was born in Loja, Ecuador as the second ...

, an Ecuadorian naturalist * Daniel Alcides Carrión, a Peruvian doctor who described Oroya fever *

Enrique Carrión Enrique Carrión Olivares (Santiago de Cuba, 11 October 1967) is a Cuban amateur boxer best known to win the 1989 World Amateur Boxing Championships at bantamweight. He won the 1989 final against Bulgarian Serafim Todorov who beat him in 1991 a ...

, a Cuban boxer * Jerónimo Carrión, an Ecuadorian president * Jerónimo de Carrión (1660-1721), Spanish composer *

Marcelo Carrión Marcelo Carrión (born 10 May 1956) is a Dominican chess FIDE Master (FM) (2009) and Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1976). Biography In 1986, Marcelo Carrión won the Columbia District Chess Championship. He participated in mult ...

(born 1956), Dominican chess player * Noemí Carrión, a Spanish singer and actress *

Pedro Carrión Pedro Carrión Sago (born August 24, 1971 in Cuba) is a Cuban heavyweight boxer best known to win several medals in international amateur competition at super heavyweight. Amateur At the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Jason ...

, a Cuban boxer *

Carion the Egyptian Carion the Egyptian was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived during the 4th century in Scetis, Lower Egypt Lower Egypt ( ar, مصر السفلى '; ) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between ...

, 4th-century Egyptian Christian monk

Animals

* Carrion beetle, a family of carnivorous beetles * Carrion crow (''Corvus corone''), a bird of western Europe and eastern Asia

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Carrion (comics), a villain in ''Spider-Man'' comics * Carrion Road, a fictitious road associated with deaths connected to bullet smuggling, in '' The Hollow Point'' (2016)

Music

* Carrion, former name of Poltergeist (band), a Swiss power thrash metal band * "Carrion", a song from Fiona Apple's ''Tidal'' (album) * "Carrion" a song from Godflesh's '' A World Lit Only by Fire (album)'' * "Carrion" a song from Parkway Drive's '' Horizons'' album * " Carrion/Apologies to Insect Life", a song by the band ''British Sea Power'' *"Carrion", a song from Deerhunter's '' Fading Frontier'' *"Carrion", a song from Gengahr's '' Where Wildness Grows''

Video game

* ''Carrion'' (video game), a horror video game