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El Arco del Tiempo del Río La Venta: Chiapas: 2010 iii, vii, viii, x (mixed) La Venta River that crosses a karst landscape has created a large canyon with a depth of up to 500 m (1,600 ft) and the highest natural arch in the world, 158 m (518 ft) high. There are numerous caves in the area, some of which provide archaeological evidence of ...
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar) is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] managed by the federal government of Mexico, specifically by Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, in collaboration with the state governments of Sonora and the Tohono O'odham.
Lima was founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535 as La Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings). Until the middle of the 18th century, it was the most important city in Spanish South America . The architecture and decoration combine the style of both the local population and Europe, such as in the Monastery of San Francisco , which was the site's ...
Logo of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. This is a list of the lists of World Heritage Sites. A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having special cultural or physical significance.
In 2003, UNESCO drafted the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which provides an international framework, source of funding, and strategic overview for the further identification and protection of these masterpieces and other intangible cultural heritages. The convention went into force in 2006 and has since ...
Ritual journeys in La Paz during Alasita: 2017 [104] The festival of the Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder in the city of La Paz: 2019 [105] Grand Festival of Tarija 2021 [106] Ch'utillos, the Festival of San Bartolomé and San Ignacio de Loyola, the meeting of cultures in Potosí 2023 [107] Bosnia and Herzegovina: Zmijanje ...
This represents a total of more than 3,500,000 km 2 (1,400,000 sq mi) of protected areas, 60% of which are marine. [ 10 ] The 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention established that biological resources, such as plants, were the common heritage of mankind or as was expressed in the preamble: "need to be preserved as part of the world heritage of ...
Below is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in upper North America. Greenland has been included here as part of North America despite its cultural and political associations with Europe. The separate List of World Heritage Sites in Central America covers the continental areas further south. Mexico leads North America hosting 35 ...