Green Spain
Cantabria
Santillana del Mar

Cave of Altamira

The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of in , . It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands.
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Photo: Locutus Borg, Public domain.
  • Access is restricted and requires permission.
  • Type: Cave
  • Description: cave with prehistoric paintings in Spain
  • Also known as: “Cave of Altacosa”, “Cave Paintings, Altamira Cave”, and “Cuevas de Altamira”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Museum and Research Center of Altamira and Santillana Zoo.

Museum
Photo: Alonso de Mendoza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as Altamira Museum, is a center dedicated to the conservation of, research into, and the sharing of information about the cave of Altamira in , Spain, named a World Heritage Site by Unesco. is situated 220 metres west of Cave of Altamira.

Zoo
Photo: Javierme, CC BY 3.0.
is situated 1½ km east of Cave of Altamira.

Museum
Photo: Stromare, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum, which is situated 2 km northeast of Cave of Altamira.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vispieres and Villapresente.

Hamlet
Photo: Bugunya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Village
Photo: Asotavento, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Hamlet
Photo: Xavier Estruch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet.

Cave of Altamira

Latitude
43.37685° or 43° 22′ 37″ north
Longitude
-4.11975° or 4° 7′ 11″ west
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
Open location code
8CMQ9VGJ+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 418842011
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3130237
Wiki­data ID
Q133575
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cave of Altamira” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كهف ألتاميرا”
  • Arabic: “كهف ألتميرا”
  • Armenian: “Ալտամիրա”
  • Asturian: “Cueva d’Altamira”
  • Asturian: “Cueva de Altamira”
  • Asturian: “Pinturres de Altamira”
  • Azerbaijani: “Altamira mağarası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Altamira”
  • Bashkir: “Альтамира”
  • Basque: “Altamira Kobazuloa”
  • Basque: “Altamira leizea”
  • Basque: “Altamirako haitzuloa”
  • Basque: “Altamirako leizea”
  • Belarusian: “Альтаміра (пячора)”
  • Belarusian: “Альтаміра”
  • Belarusian: “Пячора Альтаміра”
  • Bengali: “আলতামিরা গুহা”
  • Breton: “Altamira”
  • Bulgarian: “Алтамира”
  • Catalan: “Altamira”
  • Catalan: “cova d’Altamira”
  • Catalan: “Cova d’Altamira”
  • Catalan: “Cuevas de altamira”
  • Cebuano: “Cuevas de Altamira”
  • Chinese: “阿尔塔米拉洞”
  • Chinese: “阿尔塔米拉洞窟”
  • Chinese: “阿尔塔米拉洞窟壁画”
  • Chinese: “阿爾塔米拉洞”
  • Chinese: “阿爾塔米拉洞窟”
  • Chuvash: “Альтамира”
  • Croatian: “Altamira”
  • Croatian: “Spilja Altamira”
  • Czech: “Al tamira”
  • Czech: “Al-tamira”
  • Czech: “Altamira”
  • Danish: “Altamira”
  • Dutch: “Altamira (grot)”
  • Dutch: “Altamira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كهف التاميرا”
  • Esperanto: “Altamira”
  • Esperanto: “Kaverno Altamira”
  • Estonian: “Altamira koobas”
  • Estonian: “Altamira koopamaalid”
  • Estonian: “Altamira”
  • Finnish: “Altamira”
  • Finnish: “Altamiran luola”
  • Finnish: “Altamiran luolasto”
  • French: “Altamira”
  • French: “grotte d’Altamira”
  • French: “Grotte d’Altamira”
  • Galician: “Cova de Altamira”
  • Georgian: “ალტამირას გამოქვაბული”
  • Georgian: “ალტამირის გამოქვაბული”
  • Georgian: “ალტამირის მღვიმე”
  • German: “Altamira-Höhle”
  • German: “Höhle von Altamira”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαιο της Αλταμίρα”
  • Hebrew: “מערת אלטאמירה”
  • Hebrew: “מערת אלטמירה”
  • Hindi: “अल्तामिरा की गुफा”
  • Hungarian: “Altamira-barlang”
  • Italian: “Grotta di Altamira”
  • Italian: “grotte di Altamira”
  • Italian: “Grotte di Altamira”
  • Japanese: “アルタミラ洞窟”
  • Japanese: “アルタミラ洞窟と北スペインの旧石器時代の洞窟壁画”
  • Japanese: “アルタミラ洞窟壁画”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ತಮೀರ”
  • Kazakh: “Alʹtamïra”
  • Kazakh: “Альтамира”
  • Kazakh: “التامىيرا”
  • Kirghiz: “Альтамира үңкүрү”
  • Korean: “알타미라 동굴”
  • Latvian: “Altamira”
  • Latvian: “Altamiras ala”
  • Lithuanian: “Altamiros urvas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Altamira”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grott vun Altamira”
  • Macedonian: “Алтамира”
  • Malay: “Gua Altamira”
  • Malayalam: “അൾട്ടാമിറ”
  • Maltese: “Għar ta‘ Altamira”
  • Maltese: “Għar ta’ Altamira”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتاميراي غار”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتامیرا”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتامیرای غار”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Altamira Tōng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altamira hulekunst”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altamira-grotten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altamira”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altamiragrotten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grotten i Altamira”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Altamira”
  • Norwegian: “Altamira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Balma d’Altamira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bauma d’Altamira”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਤਾਮਿਰਾ ਦੇ ਗੁਫਾ”
  • Persian: “غار آلتامیرا”
  • Persian: “غار التامیرا”
  • Polish: “Altamira”
  • Portuguese: “Caverna de Altamira”
  • Portuguese: “Gruta de Altamira”
  • Romanian: “Grota din Altamira”
  • Romanian: “Peștera de la Altamira”
  • Romanian: “Peștera din Altamira”
  • Russian: “Альт”
  • Russian: “Альтамира”
  • Russian: “Пещера Альтамира”
  • Scots: “Cave o Altamira”
  • Serbian: “Altamira”
  • Serbian: “Алтамира”
  • Serbian: “Пећина Алтамира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Altamira”
  • Slovak: “Altamira”
  • Slovenian: “Altamira”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de Altamira”
  • Spanish: “Cuevas de Altamira”
  • Spanish: “Pinturas de Altamira”
  • Swedish: “Altamira”
  • Swedish: “Altamiragrottan”
  • Tamil: “அல்டாமிராக் குகை”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำอัลตามิรา”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำอัลตามีรา”
  • Turkish: “Altamira mağarası”
  • Turkish: “Altamira Mağarası”
  • Ukrainian: “Альтаміра”
  • Urdu: “التامیرا”
  • Uzbek: “Altamira”
  • Veps: “Al’tamir”
  • Vietnamese: “Hang Altamira”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cave of Altamira”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lungib han Altamira”
  • Welsh: “Altamira”
  • Welsh: “concha”
  • Welsh: “Ogof Altamira”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔塔米拉洞”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿爾塔米拉洞”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cave of Altamira”. Photo: Locutus Borg, Public domain.