ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located at the border with Botswana and Namibia in the northern part of the country, coinciding with the Kalahari Gemsbok…
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The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located at the border with Botswana and Namibia in the northern part of the country, coinciding with the Kalahari Gemsbok…
Þingvellir (Thingvellir) is the National Park where the Althing, an open-air assembly representing the whole of Iceland, was established in 930 and continued to meet until…
Located on the steep cliffs in the border regions of southwest China, these 38 sites of rock art illustrate the life and rituals of the…
The Zollverein industrial complex in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen consists of the complete infrastructure of a historical coal-mining site, with some 20th-century buildings of outstanding architectural merit.…
The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China…
Yosemite National Park lies in the heart of California. With its 'hanging' valleys, many waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, moraines and U-shaped valleys, it provides…
The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing, is an ancient capital city of the late Shang…
The vast natural forest of Yellowstone National Park covers nearly 9,000 km2 ; 96% of the park lies in Wyoming, 3% in Montana and 1%…
Located in the interior of Yaku Island, at the meeting-point of the palaearctic and oriental biotic regions, Yakushima exhibits a rich flora, with some 1,900…
Xinjiang Tianshan comprises four components—Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda— that total 606,833 hectares. They are part of the Tianshan mountain system of Central Asia, one of…
Between the 16th and 20th centuries, a series of defensive structures was built at this…
The Town of St George, founded in 1612, is an outstanding example of the earliest English…
The 2,909-ha site near the town of Soufriere includes the Pitons, two volcanic spires…
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is an outstanding, well-preserved example of 17th-…
Coiba National Park, off the southwest coast of Panama, protects Coiba Island, 38 smaller…
Founded in 1519 by the conquistador Pedrarías Dávila, Panamá Viejo is the oldest…
Forming a bridge between the two continents of the New World, Darien National Park contains…
Magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian…
Built between 1747 and the early 19th century to the design of Guatemalan architect Diego…
León Viejo is one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas. It did…
The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on…
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, part of the Mesoamerican region, is the arid or semi-arid zone…
Located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, this archipelago is made up of four remote islands…
This 16th century aqueduct is located between the states of Mexico and Hidalgo, on the…
The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern…
The site comprises 244 islands, islets and coastal areas that are located in the Gulf of…
The 714,566 hectare site comprises two distinct parts: the dormant volcanic Pinacate Shield…
This property lies on the northern slopes of the Tlacolula valley in subtropical central…
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the Royal Inland Road, also known as the Silver Route.…
The 56,259 ha biosphere lies within rugged forested mountains about 100 km northwest of…
The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route…
The ensemble of buildings, sports facilities and open spaces of the Central University City…
The 34,658 ha site, between the foothills of the Tequila Volcano and the deep valley of the…
Built in 1948, the House and Studio of architect Luis Barragán in the suburbs of…
The five Franciscan missions of Sierra Gorda were built during the last phase of the…
Xochicalco is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a fortified political, religious…
Campeche is a typical example of a harbour town from the Spanish colonial period in the New…
Tlacotalpan, a Spanish colonial river port on the Gulf coast of Mexico, was founded in the…
The Hospicio Cabañas was built at the beginning of the 19th century to provide care…
The old colonial town of Querétaro is unusual in having retained the geometric…
The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatán, was founded c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000…
From c. 100 B.C. to A.D. 1300, the Sierra de San Francisco (in the El Vizcaino reserve, in…
These 14 monasteries stand on the slopes of Popocatepetl, to the south-east of Mexico City.…
Founded in 1546 after the discovery of a rich silver lode, Zacatecas reached the height of…
Located in the state of Veracruz, El Tajin was at its height from the early 9th to the…
Built in the 16th century, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban planning which…
Paquimé, Casas Grandes, which reached its apogee in the 14th and 15th centuries,…
Located in the central part of the peninsula of Baja California, the sanctuary contains…
This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula.…
Founded by the Spanish in the early 16th century, Guanajuato became the world's leading…
Puebla, which was founded ex nihilo in 1531, is situated about 100 km east of Mexico City,…
Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples – Olmecs, Zapotecs…
The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50…
Built in the 16th century by the Spanish on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec…
A prime example of a Mayan sanctuary of the classical period, Palenque was at its height…
In the language of the Mayan peoples who once inhabited this region, Sian Ka'an means…
The site encompasses a rugged and extensively forested mountainous region in the south-east…
Located on the watershed of the Río Plátano, the reserve is one of the few…
Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most…
These Haitian monuments date from the beginning of the 19th century, when Haiti proclaimed…
Inhabited since the 2nd century A.D., Quirigua had become during the reign of Cauac Sky…
Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th…
In the heart of the jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation, lies one of the major sites of…
Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and…
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site…
Luxuriant natural tropical forest blends with scenic volcanic features of great scientific…
Located inside the Arctic Circle in the central part of West Greenland, the property…
Kujataa is a subarctic farming landscape located in the southern region of Greenland. It…
One of the first seven villages founded by the Spaniards in Cuba, Camagüey played a…
The colonial town of Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 in the Spanish territory but was…
The remains of the 19th-century coffee plantations in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra…
Desembarco del Granma National Park, with its uplifted marine terraces and associated…
Commercial and political rivalries in the Caribbean region in the 17th century resulted in…
Complex geology and varied topography have given rise to a diversity of ecosystems and…
Founded in the early 16th century in honour of the Holy Trinity, the city was a bridgehead…
Havana was founded in 1519 by the Spanish. By the 17th century, it had become one of the…
The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest…
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, an outstanding example of British colonial…
The site consists of a group of Georgian-style naval buildings and structures, set within a…
The property includes four archaeological sites located in the Diquís Delta in…
The Area de Conservación Guanacaste (inscribed in 1999), was extended with the addition of…
Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only…
The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left…
The property consists of eight buildings in the United States designed by the architect…
Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of St Louis, Missouri, is the largest pre-Columbian…
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of the American Declaration of Independence and…
The site encompasses a group of five frontier mission complexes situated along a stretch of…
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point owes its name to a 19th-century plantation close to…
Papahānaumokuākea is a vast and isolated linear cluster of small, low lying islands and…
This karst landscape in the state of New Mexico comprises over 80 recognized caves. They…
Situated in the valley of a small tributary of the Rio Grande, this adobe settlement –…
This site contains two of the most active volcanoes in the world, Mauna Loa (4,170 m high)…
For over 2,000 years, Pueblo peoples occupied a vast region of the south-western United…
Yosemite National Park lies in the heart of California. With its 'hanging' valleys, many…
Made in Paris by the French sculptor Bartholdi, in collaboration with Gustave Eiffel (who…
Stretching over more than 200,000 ha, this exceptionally beautiful park is home to more…
Located in the north-west of Washington State, Olympic National Park is renowned for the…
Mammoth Cave National Park, located in the state of Kentucky, has the world's largest…
Redwood National Park comprises a region of coastal mountains bordering the Pacific Ocean…
The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787)…
This site at the southern tip of Florida has been called 'a river of grass flowing…
Carved out by the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon (nearly 1,500 m deep) is the most…
The vast natural forest of Yellowstone National Park covers nearly 9,000 km2 ; 96% of the…
A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th…
In 1932 Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta, Canada) was combined with the Glacier…
The property is located on the northern edge of the semi-arid Great Plains of North…
Pimachiowin Aki ('The Land That Gives Life') is a landscape of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and…
At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an…
This fossil site is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in…
Red Bay, established by Basque mariners in the 16th century at the north-eastern tip of…
Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and…
The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia…
Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North…
The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the…
Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example…
The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount…
Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the…
Situated on the plains in the north-central region of Canada, the park (which covers 44,807…
In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus…
The village of Ninstints (Nans Dins) is located on a small island off the west coast of the…
In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park – located at…
Located along the South Nahanni River, one of the most spectacular wild rivers in North…
These parks comprise an impressive complex of glaciers and high peaks on both sides of the…