New admission to the UNESCO cultural and natural heritage in 1978

Aachen Cathedral, first world heritage in Germany

In 1978 the following new admissions to the UNESCO cultural and natural heritage took place:

World heritage

At its second meeting from September 5 to 8, 1978 in Washington, DC , the World Heritage Committee added sites to the UNESCO World Heritage list for the first time . There were a total of twelve sites from seven countries, including eight cultural heritage sites (K) and four natural heritage sites (N).

Contracting State	designation	Type	Ref.	Remarks
Ethiopia	Simien National Park	N	9	The 179 km² national park in the north of Ethiopia with an impressive mountain landscape with altitudes from 1900 to over 4500 meters was established in 1959 to protect various endemic and sometimes very endangered animal species.
	Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela	K	18th	eleven churches, each carved out of the surrounding rock formation as monoliths around 1250 .
Germany	Aachen Cathedral	K	3	one of the most architecturally outstanding buildings of the Carolingian Renaissance , in which 31 German kings and emperors were crowned from 936 to 1531, together with the associated cathedral treasury and its collection.
Ecuador	Galapagos Islands	N	1	The archipelago at the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean is characterized by a multitude of endemic animal and plant species due to its distance from other land masses.
	Old Quito	K	2	Quito was founded by the Spanish in 1534 on the ruins of an ancient Inca city and has one of the largest and best-preserved historical centers in Hispanic America.
Canada	L'Anse aux Meadows Historical National Park	K	4th	former Icelandic-Greenlandic settlement on Newfoundland, possibly built around 1000 by Leif Eriksson's expedition.
	Nahanni National Park	N	24	30,050 km² protected area in the Northwest Territories along the South Nahanni River.
Poland	Historic center of Krakow	K	29
	Wieliczka Salt Mine	K	32
Senegal	Gorée Island	K	26th	Island off the Atlantic coast of Senegal, known as one of the starting points for the Atlantic slave trade
United States	Mesa Verde	K	27
	Yellowstone	N	28

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  Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela

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  Galapagos Islands

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  Krakow Old Town

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  Yellowstone National Park

Web links

• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage: Second Session - Final Report . Paris October 19, 1978, p. 7–8 (English, online [PDF; 12.3 MB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decision: CONF 010 VIII.38. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 15, 2017 .