Alta or ALTA may refer to:
Acronyms
[edit]- Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of US mortgage
- American Land Title Association, a national trade association representing the land title industry
- American Literary Translators Association, an association of literary translators in the US
- 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
[edit]Canada
[edit]- 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
- Mont Alta, a hill in the Laurentides zone of the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, that is the basis of the Ski Mont Alta ski hill; see List of former ski areas of Quebec
- Alberta, Canada (abbreviation ALTA)
Norway
[edit]- Alta Municipality, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta (town), a town within Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta Airport, an airport in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta Church, a church in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta Museum, a museum in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Altaelva (lit. 'Alta River'), a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva
Sweden
[edit]- Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality
Ukraine
[edit]- Alta (river), a small tributary of the Trubizh in Ukraine
United States
[edit]- Alta, California, a community in Placer County, California
- Alta California ("Upper California"), the Mexican territory that later became the US state of California
- Alta, Illinois, a community in Peoria County, Illinois
- Alta, Indiana, a community 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
- Alta Peak, a mountain in the Sequoia National Park
People
[edit]- Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey, born 1942), poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
- Alta Cohen, Major League Baseball player
Art, entertainment, and media
[edit]- 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
- Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
Businesses
[edit]- Alta (vehicles), a defunct Greek manufacturer of cars, light trucks and motorcycles
- Alta Bike Share, a provider of bicycle sharing systems in the US 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 US
- Alta Motors, a defunct American manufacturer of electric motorcycles
- 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
Ships
[edit]- MV Alta, a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020
- HNoMS Alta, a museum ship in Oslo, Norway
Other uses
[edit]- Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal 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
[edit]- All pages with titles containing altas
- All pages with titles containing alta
- Altas (disambiguation)
- Altamont (disambiguation)
- AltaVista, search engine
- Alto (disambiguation)
- Arta (disambiguation)