Arco Explained

Arco may refer to:

Places

• Arco, Trentino, a town in Trentino, Italy
• Arco, Idaho, in the United States
• Arco, Minnesota, a city in the United States
• ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California, home of the Sacramento Kings

Companies

• ARCO (brand), a brand of gasoline service stations that is currently owned by Marathon Petroleum in Mexico and parts of the United States
• ARCO Chemical, a chemical company formed in 1986 by spinning off a subsidiary from the Atlantic Richfield Company
• ARCO Group, a Belgian cooperative holding company
• Atlantic Richfield Company, the Atlantic Richfield Company, formerly an independent American petroleum company (1966-2000), currently a subsidiary of BP
• ARCO Solar, a former subsidiary of the Atlantic Richfield Company that manufactured solar panels.

Music

• Arco, a directive in music for string instruments to return to bowing after playing pizzicato; see bowing
• Associate of the Royal College of Organists, a professional diploma for church organists awarded by the Royal College of Organists
• Arco (band), a British slowcore band

People

• Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897–1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, murdered Kurt Eisner
• Georg von Arco (1869–1940), early wireless pioneer
• Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco (c. 1650–1715), a diplomat and Generalfeldmarschall
• Johann Philipp d'Arco (1652–1704), a soldier who served Habsburg Austria

Other uses

• Arco (ARDM-5), a type of U.S. Navy floating drydock
• Arco (lamp), a 1962 design, subject of 2006 intellectual property dispute
• A shortened form of arcology
• A male given name in the Netherlands, for example: Arco Jochemsen, a Dutch footballer

See also

• • El Arco (disambiguation)
• Arko (disambiguation)