Oro

Oro, meaning gold in Italian and Spanish, may refer to:

Places

• Orø, an island in Denmark
• Oro, Estonia, a village
• Oro Province, Papua New Guinea
  • Oro Bay
• Örö, a town situated in the outer archipelago, northeast of Oskarshamn, Sweden
• Oro, a former name of Yonggwang County, North Korea
  • Oro concentration camp, a North Korean concentration camp for political prisoners
• Oro City, Colorado, US, a ghost town
• Oro County, Kansas Territory, a US county from 1859 to 1861
• Oro-Medonte, Ontario, Canada, a township usually abbreviated to just "Oro"
• Oro Moraine, Ontario, Canada, a glacial moraine
• 4733 ORO, a main-belt asteroid

Languages

• Oro language, spoken in Nigeria
• oro, ISO 639 code for the Orokolo language of Papua New Guinea

People

• Joan Oró (1923–2004), Catalonian (Spanish) biochemist
• Juan Bustillo Oro (1904–1989), Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
• Luis Oro, Spanish chemist and professor
• Oro (wrestler), Jesús Javier Hernández Solís (1971–1993), Mexican professional wrestler

Music

• Oro, a Balkan folk dance - see Hora (dance)
• Oro album, an RIAA certification for 100,000 Spanish-language albums shipped
• Óró – A Live Session, an album by Irish musician Máire Brennan
• Oro: Grandes Éxitos (also known as ABBA Oro), a Spanish-language album by ABBA
• ORO, 6th album of Italian stoner psychedelic band Ufomammut
• "Oro" (song), the Serbian entry in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest

Other uses

• 'Oro, a god in Polynesian mythology
• Oro, another name for the Italian wine grape Garganega
• Oro (beverage), a Peruvian soft drink
• CD Oro, a football club in Jalisco, Mexico
• Oro (Street Fighter), a video game character in Street Fighter III
• a type of tequila

See also

• El Oro (disambiguation)
• Alfredo de Oro (1863-1948), Cuban billiards and pool player