The birth of the municipality of Los Altos Historical milestone · Los Altos, Las Merindades, Burgos Image of Los Altos, not of the place itself. In 1910 a new town council called Altos de Valdivielso was separated from the Merindad de Valdivielso, which in 1930 came to be called Los Altos and took in new villages until it gathered twelve settlements at 1,023 metres. 1910 Photo: Cronoser (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Los Altos