Faro Explained

Faro may refer to:

Places

Africa

• Faro (department), North Province, Cameroon
• Faro National Park, Cameroon

Americas

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

Europe

• 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

• 9358 Fårö, 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 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

• 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)