Altamira
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
In 1967, a 6.6-magnitude quake struck Caracas and killed more than 200 people, destroying buildings in Palos Grandes and the upper-class area of Altamira.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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
“The boring program, thus far, has confirmed there is a much deeper landslide ... probably the ancient Altamira landslide,” said Mike Phipps, the city’s contracted geologist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
At Altamira and Lascaux, then, the main purpose may no longer have been to “kill” but to “make” animals: to increase their supply, perhaps through seasonal rituals repeated year after year.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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