Faro

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Faro may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Buildings and Structures 4 Other 5 See also

[edit] Places

• Faro District, in the Algarve, southern Portugal.
  • Faro Municipality, in the Algarve, southern Portugal.
  • Faro, Portugal, main city in Faro district.
  • Faro Airport (Portugal) in Faro, Portugal (IATA: FAO).
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Faro, in Faro, Portugal.
• Faro, Yukon, Canada.
  • Faro Airport (Yukon) in Faro, Yukon, Canada (IATA: ZFA).
  • Faro/Johnson Lake Water Aerodrome, in Faro, Yukon, Canada.
  • Faro (electoral district), in Faro, Yukon, Canada.
• Faro, Spain, parish in Lugo, Spain.
• Fårö, Swedish island in Baltic Sea.
• Punta del Faro, northeastern point of Sicily, Italy.
• Faro (department), a division of the North province in Cameroon.
• Faro National Park, national park in Cameroon.
• Faro, a village in North Carolina, United States that was the site of the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

[edit] People

• Rodrigo Faro, Brazilian actor.
• Saint Faro, also known as Burgundofaro, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meaux, France.
• Faro, pseudonym of Faith and Ross Eckler
  • FAro, pseudonym of Faith Eckler
  • faRO, pseudonym of Ross Eckler

[edit] Buildings and Structures

• Faro de Moncloa, transmission tower in Madrid, Spain.
• Faro del Comercio, building in Monterrey, Mexico.
• El Faro towers, complex of two towers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[edit] Other

• Faro's Daughter, novel by Georgette Heyer.
• Faro de Vigo, Galician newspaper from Vigo, Spain.
• Faro (card game), card game descendant of Basset.
• Faro shuffle, method of shuffling playing cards.
• Faro (mythology), god in Mande mythology.
• Faro, a type of Belgian beer.
• Faro technologies, United States technological company.
• FAROS, an acronym for Final Approach Runway Occupancy System, a technology under development to signal occupancy of runways to arriving aircraft, so they can execute a go-around.

[edit] See also

• 9358 Fårö, main belt asteroid.
• Farø Bridges, in Denmark
• Faros, village in Greece.
• Faroe Islands, Danish archipelago in the North Atlantic
• Ferro, alternative name for El Hierro, island in the Canary Islands, Spain.
• Farro, a wheat plant also known as Emmer.
• Pharos (disambiguation)
• Pharaoh (disambiguation)
• Pharao (disambiguation)

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