Cara

Cara or CARA may refer to:

Places

 * Čara, 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, El Salvador
 * Monte Cara, a mountain in the Republic of Cape Verde
 * Mount Cara, a peak in Antarctica

People

 * Cara (given name)
 * Cara (surname)

Fictional characters

 * 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, 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
 * Compassion and Responsibility for Animals, a non-profit animal welfare group in the Philippines
 * Council for At-Risk Academics, 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, a type of orange
 * Cara culture, 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