Faro
Appearance
Faro may refer to:
Places
[edit]Africa
[edit]- Faro (department), North Province, Cameroon
- Faro National Park, Cameroon
- Faro River, tributary of the Benue River
Americas
[edit]- Faro, Pará, Brazil, a municipality
- Faro, Yukon, Canada, a town
- Faro, Missouri, an unincorporated community, USA
- Faro, North Carolina, an unincorporated community, USA
Europe
[edit]- Faro District, the southern district covering the Algarve in southern Portugal
- Faro, Portugal, the municipality and main city of the district
- Faro Airport, the main regional airport in the district
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Faro, serving the district
- Farø, an island in Denmark
- Fårö, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea
- Faro Point, the northeastern point of Sicily, Italy
Extraterrestrial
[edit]- 9358 Fårö, a main belt asteroid
People
[edit]- Saint Faro, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meaux, France
- Faro (surname)
- Faro, pen name of editors Faith and A. Ross Eckler Jr. (1927–2016)
FARO
[edit]- Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente, a cultural center and training facility in Mexico City
- Grupo FARO (Foundation for the Advance of Reforms and Opportunities), a think tank in Ecuador
Other uses
[edit]- Faro (card game), a card game
- Faro (beer), a type of Belgian ale
- Count of Faro, a Portuguese title
- Faro (mythology), a god in Mande mythology
- the title character of Buddy Faro, a 1998 television series, portrayed by Dennis Farina
- Faro, a large cotton sphere burned inside churches on feasts of martyrs in the Ambrosian Rite
- Faro (restaurant), a defunct restaurant in New York City, USA
See also
[edit]- El Faro (disambiguation)
- Odmar Færø (born 1989), Faroese footballer
- Faroe Islands
- Faroe (disambiguation)
- Faros (disambiguation)
- Farro, a wheat plant also known as Emmer
- Ferro (disambiguation)
- Pharao, a German Eurodance band
- Pharaoh (disambiguation)
- Faros (disambiguation)
- Faros, a Greek village
- Pharo (disambiguation)
- Pharo, programming language
- Pharos (disambiguation)