Altamira
Americannoun
noun
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On Wednesday, when the quakes struck, Rosenwald was at a birthday party for children on the roof of a building in Caracas’s hard-hit Altamira neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
An AFP journalist saw a 22-story building completely destroyed in the capital's Altamira neighborhood, where people cried out relatives' names as volunteers climbed over the rubble.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Spectacular Ice Age cave art in places like Altamira and El Castillo encouraged the idea that symbolism and art switched on almost overnight in Ice Age Europe.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
At the top there is, like frosting on a cake, shale mud, Altamira Shale, the sedimentary legacy of those seabed millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
People with money who drive through Altamira to the beach resorts on the north coast, she means.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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