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Arco may refer to:

Places

Companies

  • Atlantic Richfield Company, the Atlantic Richfield Company, formerly an independent American petroleum company (1966-2000), currently a subsidiary of BP
  • 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 Solar, a former subsidiary of the Atlantic Richfield Company that manufactured photovoltaics that has since been owned by Siemens
  • Arco (Renfe Operadora service), a commercial passenger train service in Spain
  • Arco (toy company), a company that made toys, including The Other World
  • Groep Arco [nl], Belgian cooperative

Music

  • Arco, a directive in music for string instruments to return to bowing after playing pizzicato; see bowing
  • ARCO (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

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