Faro

Faro may refer to:

Places

Africa

• Faro (department), North Province, Cameroon
• Faro National Park, Cameroon
• Faro River, tributary of the Benue River

Americas

• Faro, Pará, Brazil, a municipality
• Faro, Yukon, Canada, a town
• Faro (Canadian electoral district)
• Faro Airport (Yukon)
• Faro/Johnson Lake Water Aerodrome
• Faro, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community
• Faro, North Carolina, US, an unincorporated community

Europe

• Faro (Portuguese 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
• FÃ¥rö, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea
• Faro Point, the northeastern point of Sicily, Italy

Extraterrestrial

• 9358 FÃ¥rö, a main belt asteroid

People

• Saint Faro, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meaux, France
• Faro (surname)
• Faro, pen name of editors Faith and A. Ross Eckler Jr. (1927–2016)

FARO

• 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

• Faro (card game), a popular form of gambling predating poker
• Faro (beer), a type of Belgian ale
• Count of Faro, a Portuguese title of nobility
• Faro (mythology), a deity prominent in the Mandé creation narrative
• Buddy Faro, a 1998 television series, or the title character portrayed by Dennis Farina
• Faro, a liturgical item burned in Ambrosian Rite churches on feasts of martyrs
• Faro (restaurant), a defunct Michelin star establishment in New York City, US
• Faro, a small atoll that may form with other faros into a greater atoll, in the language of the Maldives

See also

• 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)