Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

Alt-A An Alt-A mortgage, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of U.S. mortgage that, for various reasons, is considered riskier than A-paper, or "prime", and less risky than "subprime," the riskiest category. For these reasons, as well as in some c ...

, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of U.S. 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 The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand. ALTA organises regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training ...

Accelerated life testing Accelerated life testing is the process of testing a product by subjecting it to conditions ( stress, strain, temperatures, voltage, vibration rate, pressure etc.) in excess of its normal service parameters in an effort to uncover faults and potent ...

or Accelerated life testing analysis

Places

Canada

* 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 Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, Canada (abbreviation ALTA)

Norway

Alta, Norway ( se, Áltá ; fkv, Alattio; fi, Alattio) is the most populated municipality in Finnmark in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alta. Some of the main villages in the municipality i ...

, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway **

Alta (town) Alta ( se, Áltá; fkv, Alattio; fi, Alattio) is a town in Alta Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality and the major commercial centre in the western part of the county. The ...

, a town in the municipality of Alta in Finnmark county, Norway **

Alta Airport Alta Airport ( no, Alta lufthavn; ) is an international airport serving Alta, a town and municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The airport is located at Elvebakken, east of the city center. It has a single, runway numbered 11/29, w ...

, an airport in Finnmark county, Norway ** Alta Church, a church in Alta municipality, Finnmark county, Norway ** Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva **

Alta IF Alta Idrettsforening is a sports club from Alta, Norway. The club is most known for its association football department, which played in the 1. divisjon until 2014. Alta currently plays in 2. divisjon, the third tier of the Norwegian football le ...

, Norwegian football club **

Alta Museum The World Heritage Rock Art Centre - Alta Museum (''Verdensarvsenter for bergkunst – Alta Museum'') is located at Alta in Troms og Finnmark, Norway. World Heritage Rock Art - Alta Museum is situated in Hjemmeluft, a small bay in the Altafjord ...

* Altaelva (Alta River), Troms og Finnmark county

Sweden

Älta Älta is a locality situated in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County Stockholm County ( sv, Stockholms län, link=no ) is a county or '' län'' (in Swedish) on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland ...

, a locality in Nacka Municipality

Ukraine

Alta (river) Alta River ( uk, Альта, Ільтиця, Alta, Iltytsia) is a small river in Ukraine and is a right tributary of the Trubizh. The ancient town of Pereiaslav is situated between the Trubizh and Alta rivers. The river is considered the place ...

, a small tributary of the Trubizh in Ukraine

United States

* Alta, California, a community in Placer County, California *

Alta California Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain, formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of , but ...

''("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 community in Vermillion County, Indiana * Alta, Iowa, a city in Buena Vista County, Iowa *

Alta, Utah Alta is a town in eastern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 383 at the 2010 census, a slight increase from the 2000 figure of 370. Alta is centered in t ...

, a town in Salt Lake County, Utah **

Alta Ski Area Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of , Alta's base elevation is and rises to for a vertical gain of . One of the oldest sk ...

, 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 Alta is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Alta is located at the junction of Interstate 64, U.S. Route 60 U.S. Route 60 is a major east–west United States highway, traveling from southwestern A ...

, 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 * 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 The ''saltarello'' is a musical dance originally from Italy. The first mention of it is in Add MS 29987, a late-fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Tuscan origin, now in the British Library. It was usually played in a fast tr ...

* ''Acqua Alta'', a novel by

Donna Leon Donna Leon (; born in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. In 2003, she received the Corine Literature Prize. Leon lived in Ven ...

* Alta capella, a 20th-century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles

Businesses

* 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 The Alta Car and Engineering Company was a British sports and racing car manufacturer, commonly known simply as Alta. Their cars contested five FIA World Championship races between 1950 and 1952, as well as Grand Prix events prior to this. They ...

, 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 Alta Newspaper Group Limited Partnership is a Vancouver-based publisher of newspapers in Western Canada and Quebec. It owns three small daily newspapers and more than a dozen weeklies. Alta, also known as Alberta Newspaper Group and Southern Al ...

, a newspaper publisher in Western Canada and Quebec * Alta Records, Dallas, Texas *

Treno Alta Velocità Treno Alta Velocità SpA (TAV) is special-purpose entity owned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (itself owned by Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane) for the planning and construction of a high-speed rail network in Italy. Purpose The purpose of Treno ...

(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 Bangladesh and India, to paint the borders of the feet * MV ''Alta'', a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020 * Acqua alta (Italian: "high water"), the term used in Veneto for the exceptional tide peaks that occur periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea