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Altamira

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Altamira

Cave decorated with Palaeolithic wall paintings, the first such to be discovered, in 1879. The paintings are realistic depictions of bison, deer, and horses in polychrome (several colours). The cave is near the village of Santillana del Mar in Santander province, northern Spain; other well-known Palaeolithic cave paintings are in Lascaux, southwestern France.

Altamira

Amazonian city in the state of Pará, northeastern Brazil, situated at the junction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway with the Xingu River, 700 km/400 mi southwest of Belém; population (2000) 62,300.

In 1989 a protest by Brazilian Indians and environmentalists against the building of six dams focused world attention on the devastation of the Amazon rainforest.



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Police inspector Vitor Vales says Vitalmiro Moura voluntarily turned himself in shortly after midnight in the city of Altamira in Brazil's northern state of Para.
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by a team from the Altamira Museum, which is responsible for looking after the same-named cave containing the famous Upper Paleolithic cave paintings.
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