Arará is an African ethnic group in Cuba (especially in the provinces of La Habana and Matanzas), Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean who descend from Fon, Ewe, Popo, Mahi and other ethnic groups in Dahomey (now Benin), West Africa. Arará may also refer to the music, dance, and religion of this group of people. The word Arará and its cognates, Rada (Haiti, Trinidad) and Arrada (Carriacou), are derived from Allada, a city in Dahomey.