Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

Places

Canada

Norway

Sweden

  • Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality

Ukraine

United States

People

  • Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey, born 1942), poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
  • Alta Cohen, Major League Baseball player

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

Ships

  • 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

  • Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh and 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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