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Altamira (surname) Altamira is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cristina Altamira (born 1953), Argentine mezzo-soprano singer *Jorge Altamira (born José Saúl Wermus in 1942), Argentine activist and leader of the Workers' Party *Rafael Al ...

Places

Cave of Altamira The Cave of Altamira (; es, Cueva de Altamira ) is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contem ...

, a cave in Cantabria, Spain famous for its paintings and carving *

Altamira, Pará Altamira is one of one hundred and forty-four Municipality, municipalities in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. It has an area of , making it the largest municipality by area both in Pará state and Brazil, and until 2009 it was the world' ...

, a city in the Brazilian state of Pará *

Altamira, Huila Altamira is a town and municipality in the Huila Department, Colombia. Altamira is a small pueblo in the department Huila, with a population around 2,416. Its geographical coordinates are 2° 3' 46" North, 75° 47' 14" West. It is about an 8-h ...

, a town and municipality in Colombia *

Altamira, Puerto Plata Altamira is a town in the Puerto Plata Province of the Dominican Republic. The town's name is the subject of at least two different origin traditions. One asserts that when Christopher Columbus first arrived in the area, he took note of the hei ...

, a town in the Dominican Republic *

Altamira Municipality, Tamaulipas Altamira is a municipality in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located immediately to the north of the municipalities of Tampico and Ciudad Madero, at the southern tip of the state of Tamaulipas, on the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, it border ...

, Mexico, a port city and a municipality *

Altamira (Caracas) Altamira is a neighborhood located in the Chacao municipality of Caracas, Venezuela. It has its own Metro Station, many hotels and restaurants, and it is an important business and residential center of the city. It is also an important tourist d ...

a neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela *

Altamira do Maranhão Altamira do Maranhão is a municipality (Brazil), municipality in the states of Brazil, state of Maranhão in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental ...

, a city in the Brazilian state of Maranhão *A neighbourhood in the district of

Basurto-Zorroza Basurto-Zorroza (or Basurtu-Zorrotza) is the eighth district of the city of Bilbao (Biscay), in the Spanish Basque Country. It is divided into the neighbourhoods of Altamira, Basurto, Olabeaga, Masustegui-Monte Caramelo and Zorrotza. It is se ...

in Bilbao, Spain *

7742 Altamira 7742 Altamira, provisional designation , is a Henan asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the South Bohemian Kleť Observatory in the ...

, an asteroid

In business

*Altamira Financial Services, a Canadian mutual fund company now part of

National Bank of Canada The National Bank of Canada (french: Banque Nationale du Canada) is the sixth largest commercial bank in Canada. It is headquartered in Montreal, and has branches in most Canadian provinces and 2.4 million personal clients. National Bank is the ...

AltaMira Press Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing compa ...

, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group *

Altamira Software Altamira Software was founded in Mill Valley, California by Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, Eric Lyons and Nicholas Clay in 1991. The company's primary product was Altamira Composer. This PC based software pioneered object-based drawing and image editing. ...

, a computer software developer acquired by Microsoft in 1994

Others

* ''Altamira'' (film), a 2016 film by Hugh Hudson ** ''Altamira'' (album), a 2016 soundtrack album of the film by Mark Knopfler and Evelyn Glennie * Altamira oriole, ''Icterus gularis'', a New World oriole *

Altamira yellowthroat The Altamira yellowthroat (''Geothlypis flavovelata'') is a New World warbler. It is a resident breeding bird endemic (ecology), endemic to the Gulf slope of northeastern Mexico.Curson, Quinn and Beadle, ''New World Warblers'' It is closely rel ...

, ''Geothlypis flavovelata'', a New World warbler *

Viscounty of Altamira The Viscounts of Altamira were a family of the Spanish nobility. Genealogy First GenerationThe spelling of the surname varied with generation, between 'Vivero', 'Viveiro' and 'Bivero' according to individual taste and preference. This disparity ...

, Spanish nobility *

Marquisate of Altamira A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman wi ...

, Spanish nobility *"Alta Mira", a song by Edgar Winter on their LP ''

They Only Come Out at Night ''They Only Come Out at Night'' is the debut studio album by American rock band the Edgar Winter Group. A commercial success, the album reached the #3 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart and features two of the band's signature songs, "Frankenstei ...

'', 1972

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