| has gloss | eng: Altamira is a town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic. Was high to the category of Municipality by disposition of the President Ulysses Heureaux October 29 1889, by means of the Decree Not. 9793. Due to that in this day its formation is finalized, is of the dates but important in our community. With relation to the name there are two versions, the first one according to historic data, obeys to that in the epoch of the discovery when Christopher Columbus displaced himself toward the Valley of the Cibao, since the height of the mountains of this municipality he exclaimed: "Of the high thing I look at", another version counts that such designation itself due to the geographical resemblance of this Municipality with the caves Altamiranas of Spain. In principle, this community functioned as an estate where the adjoining populations were transferred to form their conucos where the main product that sowed was the tobacco, for which manufactured ranches (for that reason some towns still call them The ranches of Puerto Plata). |