World Heritage in Chad
World Heritage Sites in Chad |
The World Heritage in Chad (as of 2018) includes two UNESCO World Heritage sites , including a World Heritage Site and a mixed cultural and natural heritage site. The Chad has ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1999, the first World Heritage site was inscribed on the World Heritage List 2012th The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2016.
World heritage sites
The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Chad in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
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Ounianga Lakes ( location ) |
2012 | N | 1400 | The lakes of Ounianga are a series of lakes in northeastern Chad where the trade winds have created headlands that run north-south | |
Natural and cultural landscape of the Ennedi massif ( location ) |
2016 | K / N | 1475 | The Ennedi massif is a sandstone mountain range with petroglyphs (rock drawings) |
Tentative list
The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2018, eight sites are entered in the tentative list of Chad, the last entry was made in 2018. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.
Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
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Metallurgical site Begon II | 2005 | K | 2049 | Iron mining site from the 9th to 11th centuries near the village of Begon II | |
Site of early hominids in the Djurab desert | 2005 | N | 2050 | with the sites of Koro Toro , Kollé , Kossom Bougoudi and Toros-Menalla | |
Lake Chad ( location ) |
2005 | N | 2051 | ||
Wara ruins ( Lage ) |
2005 | K | 2052 | ||
The strange iron mines of Télé-Nugar | 2005 | K | 2054 | ||
Rock engravings and paintings by Ennedi and Tibesti | 2005 | K | 2055 | Petroglyphs and rock paintings in the area of the Ennedi and Tibesti mountain ranges | |
Zakouma National Park ( location ) |
2005 | N | 2056 | ||
The cultural landscape around Lake Chad. | 2018 | K / N | 6360 | It is a transnational application from Cameroon , Niger , Nigeria and Chad . Lake Chad has been a natural monument on Chad's tentative list since 2005. |
Web links
- Chad on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chad. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 28, 2017 .
- ^ Tentative list of Chad. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 28, 2017 .