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Alta or ALTA may refer to:
Acronyms
- American Land Title Association, a national trade association representing the land title industry
- American Literary Translators Association, an association of literary translators in the United States
- Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance or ALTA, an initiative to conserve the Amur leopard and Amur tiger
- Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association
- Australasian Language Technology Association
- Accelerated life testing or Accelerated life testing analysis
Places
Canada
- "Alta.", an abbreviation for Alberta
- Alta Creek, the official name of the River of Golden Dreams, in Whistler, British Columbia
- Alta Lake (British Columbia), a lake in Whistler, British Columbia
- Alta Lake, British Columbia, a community now part of Whistler, British Columbia
Norway
- Alta, Norway, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta (town), a town in the municipality of Alta in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta Airport, an airport in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta Church, a church in Alta municipality, Finnmark county, Norway
Sweden
- Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality
Ukraine
- Alta River, a small river in Ukraine
United States
- Alta, California, a community in Placer County, California
- Alta California ("Upper California"), the Mexican territory that later became the U.S. state of California
- Alta, Illinois, a community in Peoria County, Illinois
- Alta, Indiana, a town in Vermillion County, Indiana
- Alta, Iowa, a city in Buena Vista County, Iowa
- Alta, Utah, a town in Salt Lake County, Utah
- Alta Ski Area, a ski area located in the Wasatch Mountains, in Salt Lake County, Utah.
- Alta, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia
- Alta, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
- Alta, Wyoming, a community in Teton County, Wyoming
- Alta Lake State Park, a park in the northwest interior of the state of Washington
People
- Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey, born 1942), poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
Art, entertainment, and media
- Alta (novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
- Alta, Spanish term equivalent to the dance Saltarello
- Acqua Alta, a novel by Donna Leon
- Alta capella, a 20th-century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles
Businesses
- Alta (vehicles), a Greek manufacturer of cars, light trucks and motorcycles
- Alta Bike Share, a provider of bicycle sharing systems in the United States and Australia
- Alta Car and Engineering Company, an English automobile and a Formula One racing manufacturer
- Alta Group Newspapers, a defunct newspaper publisher in the northeastern United States
- Alta Newspaper Group, a newspaper publisher in Western Canada and Quebec
- Alta Records, Dallas, Texas
- Treno Alta Velocità (Italian: High Velocity Train), a special purpose entity formed to plan and construct a high-speed rail network in Italy
Other uses
- Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in India, to paint the borders of the feet
- Acqua alta (Italian: "high water"), the term used in Veneto for the exceptional tide peaks that occur periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea
See also
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