| CARL | the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car |
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| CARL | Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978) |
| CARL | Mexican novelist (born in 1928) |
| CARL | a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border |
| CARL | a group of caverns in southeastern New Mexico noted for their stalactites and stalagmites |
| CARL | a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations |
| CARL | Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881) |