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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.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1]
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 ...
The National Service of Natural Protected Areas by the State (SERNANP) is a specialized technical public agency of the Peruvian State, under the Ministry of the Environment of Peru, [2] responsible for directing and establishing the technical and administrative criteria for the conservation of Peru's Natural Protected Areas (Sistema Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado ...
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 ...
Site; as per officially inscribed name [1] Location; at city, regional, or provincial level and geocoordinates Criteria; as defined by the World Heritage Committee [2] Area; in hectares and acres. If available, the size of the buffer zone has been noted as well. A value of zero implies that no data has been published by UNESCO
UNESCO data Description Town of Luang Prabang: Luang Prabang: 1995 479bis; ii, iv, v (cultural) Luang Prabang, the capital of the Lan Xang kingdom between the 14th and 16th centuries, was the royal and religious seat of the French protectorate of Laos between 1893 and 1946. The architecture of the city represents fusion of two styles: the ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1] Qatar accepted the convention on September 12, 1984, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the ...