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The National Museum and Research Center of Altamira (Spanish: Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira), also known as Altamira Museum (Spanish: Museo de Altamira), is a center dedicated to the conservation of, research into, and the sharing of information about the cave of Altamira in Santillana del Mar (), Spain, named a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
The Port of Altamira is an industrial port facility located on Mexico's east coast on the northwest side of the Gulf of Campeche. It is located in Altamira , Tamaulipas , 15 n.m. north of Tampico .
Altamira is a port city on the Gulf of Mexico and is located near the southeastern tip of the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico. It is the second-largest city in the municipality of Altamira. To the south is Tampico, also in this state. The city is part of the Tampico Metropolitan Area. Its port business is mostly containerized cargo for ocean ...
Altamira's advantage is having a sea Port with a great territorial reserve of approximately 9500 hectares. Altamira has land and rail connections to connect all companies with the main consumer markets and production hubs in Mexico, highlighting the northeastern zone, which includes the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and Coahuila.
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 height of the mountains and exclaimed: "Look at the heights."
Cave of Altamira, a cave in Cantabria, Spain famous for its paintings and carving; Altamira, Pará, a city in the Brazilian state of Pará; Altamira, Huila, a town and municipality in Colombia; Altamira, Puerto Plata, a town in the Dominican Republic; Altamira Municipality, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a port city and a municipality
The Altamira Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Altamira) was a building in the Spanish town of Torrijos, in the province of Toledo.A remarkable example of late 15th century architecture in the region, it was a fusion of different styles, with a Renaissance courtyard and façade, a Gothic-Isabelline portal and several Mudejar roofs in the interior.
Map of Paleolithic cave art sites in the Franco-Cantabrian region.. The Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain (Cueva de Altamira y arte rupestre paleolítico del Norte de España) is a grouping of 18 caves of northern Spain, which together represent the apogee of Upper Paleolithic cave art in Europe between 35,000 and 11,000 years ago (Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean ...