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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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Bridgestone, Tokyo, Japan, will build a plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to ensure reliable supplies of high quality carbon black, which is said to be in increasingly high demand due to expansion of the company's tire plants worldwide.
, will expand its North American engineering plastics compounding capacity by installing an extrusion line at its styrenics facility in Altamira, Mexico.
To make a modest living in Los Angeles County, a single adult must earn $25,000, a single parent with two kids must earn $54,000 to juggle in the extra cost of day care, and a working parent like Altamira with a stay-at-home spouse must earn $49,000 to make ends meet, according to the Sacramento-based researchers.
 
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