What is "poro"

The Poro, or Purrah or Purroh, is a men's secret society in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Ivory Coast, introduced by the Mande people. It is sometimes referred to as a hunting society and only males are admitted to its ranks. The female counterpart of the Poro society is the Sande society.

Poro, re dell'Indie ("Porus, King of the Pakistani region", HWV 28) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Alessandro nell'Indie by Metastasio, and based on Alexander the Great's encounter with King Porus in 326 BC. The libretto had already been set to music by Leonardo Vinci in 1729 and by Antonio Vivaldi among others and was used as the text for more than sixty operas throughout the 18th century.

Graham Cummings has examined in detail the composition history of Poro in the context of Handel's work on his London operas during the 1730s, and has postulated the principal time of Handel's composing from September 1730 to 16 January 1731, with small revisions prior to the 2 February premiere.

The opera shifted the story's emphasis from Alessandro to Poro and Cleofide, and their relationship.

Poro may refer to:

• Operation Poro, a planned Soviet invasion of the Scandinavian peninsula in the 1930s
• Poro, a secret society of Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Poro, Cebu, a municipality in the Philippines
• Poro (opera), an opera seria by George Frideric Handel
• Poro Island, an island in the Philippines
• Poro Point, a headland in the Philippines
• Poro Region, a region in Ivory Coast, in Savanes District
• Poro, a fictional creature from the video game League of Legends