World Heritage in Brazil

The World Heritage in Brazil (as of 2019) includes 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites , including 14 World Heritage Sites, 7 World Natural Heritage sites and one mixed site. Brazil acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1977, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1980. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2019.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Brazil in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Historical city of Ouro Preto ( location )	1980	K	124
(more pictures)	Historic Center of Olinda ( Location )	1982	K	189
São Miguel das Missões (further pictures)	Jesuit missions of the Guaraní	1983	K	275	Jesuit Missions of the Guaraní is a transnational world heritage of Brazil and Argentina. These are settlements created by the Jesuits for the Guaraní people . The aim of these settlements was primarily the Christian missionary work of the Guarani. The ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil were listed as World Heritage in 1983. This World Heritage site was expanded to include the Argentine sites in 1984.
(more pictures)	Historic center of Salvador de Bahia	1985	K	309
(more pictures)	Shrine of Bom Jesus do Congonhas ( location )	1985	K	334	The Bom Jesus de Matosinhos sanctuary was built between 1758 and 1772 on Maranhão Hill, above the town of Congonhas in Minas Gerais. The entire building complex includes the church with a large flight of stairs , a hilly forecourt and seven cross-way chapels. The facade of the church is in the style of the Brazilian Baroque , the interior fittings in the style of the Rococo . Antônio Francisco Lisboa, known as Aleijadinho , created the prophet sculptures on the outside staircase in the years 1800–1805 with his students.
	Iguaçu National Park	1986	N	355
	Brasília	1987	K	445
	Serra da Capivara National Park	1991	K	606	Since 1998 the Serra da Capivara National Park and the areas of permanent protected areas have also been on the list of proposals under natural criteria (Ref. 1125 ).
	Historic center of São Luís	1997	K	821
	Historic center of the city of Diamantina	1999	K	890
	Protected Areas of the Atlantic Forests on the Coast of Discovery	1999	N	892	The rainforest reserve of the Mata Atlântica on the Costa do Descobrimento , Portuguese Reservas de Mata Atlântica da Costa do Descobrimento , comprises eight different sized protected areas on 1120 km²: three national parks, two biological reserves and three private protected areas of the natural heritage, Portuguese Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural - RPPN . Six of them are in the state of Bahia and two in Espírito Santo. The rainforest reserve is characterized by a high level of biodiversity.
	Southeast Atlantic Forest Reserves	1999	N	893	South-eastern part of the Mata Atlântica , includes 25 different protected areas
	Central Amazon reserve	2000	N	998	In 2003 the Jaú National Park was added
	Pantanal Protected Area	2000	N	999	The South American Pantanal (Portuguese for swamp) is one of the largest inland wetlands on earth. Countless animals and plants live in this region.
	Historic center of the city of Goias Velho	2001	K	993
	Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Rocas Atoll Reserves	2001	N	1000	The island reserve includes the Fernando de Noronha archipelago and the Rocas Atoll, about 150 km west of it
	Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks	2001	N	1035	includes the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park and the Emas National Park
	São Francisco square in the city of São Cristóvão	2010	K	1272
	Rio de Janeiro: Carioca landscapes between mountains and sea	2012	K	1100
	Ensemble of modernity in Pampulha	2016	K	1493	Building ensemble in the architectural style of modernism in the Pampulha district the Brazilian metropolis of Belo Horizonte .
	Valongo-Kai archaeological site	2017	K	1548	In 1811 the construction of a stone quay began in the center of Rio de Janeiro , through which around 900,000 Africans came to South America in the following period.
	Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodiversity ( location )	2019	K / N	1308	The cultural landscape includes the old town of Paraty , one of the best preserved coastal cities in Brazil, and four nature reserves of the Atlantic rainforest .

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

As of 2019, 22 sites are entered in the tentative list of Brazil, the last entry was in 2017. 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
(more pictures)	São Bento Church and Monastery	1996	K	36	in Rio de Janeiro
(more pictures)	Palace of Culture, former seat of the Ministry of Education and Health	1996	K	37	The Gustavo Capanema building in Rio de Janeiro was the seat of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Health
(more pictures)	Pico da Neblina National Park	1996	N	39	National park around the Pico da Neblina in the state of Amazonas
	Serra da Bocaina National Park	1996	N	40	National park in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
(more pictures)	Atol das Rocas Biological Reserve ( location )	1996	N	41
	Estação Ecológica do Taim Nature Reserve	1996	N	42	Nature reserve in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
	Estação Ecológica do Raso da Catarina nature reserve	1996	N	43	Nature reserve in the state of Bahia
	Rio Peruaçu Canyon	1998	N	969	Canyon of the Rio Peruaçu in the state of Minas Gerais with rock art and sites of prehistoric settlement.
	Estação Ecológica do Anavilhanas Nature Reserve	1998	N	1120
	Sierra del Divisor National Park	1998	N	1121
	Serra da Canastra National Park	1998	N	1123
	Cavernas do Peruaçu State Reserve	1998	K / N	1124
	Serra da Capivara National Park and the areas of permanent protected areas	1998	K / N	1125	Planned expansion of the existing cultural heritage site (Ref. 606 ) into a mixed cultural and natural heritage site
(more pictures)	Cultural landscape of Paranapiacaba: city and railway system in the Serra do Mar ( location )	2014	K	5878	Paranapiacaba , today a district of the city of Santo André in the state of São Paulo , was built in the mid-19th century by the British São Paulo Railway Company as a settlement for the engineers and workers involved in the construction of the Paranapiacaba cable car in the Serra do Mar.
(more pictures)	Ver-o-peso	2014	K	5879	Site of a fish and vegetable market by the sea in Belém with an iron fish market building, boat docks and the adjacent rows of houses
Amazon Theater	Amazonian Theater	2015	K	5996	Theater building in Amazonia , includes the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus and the Teatro da Paz in Belém
Brum Fortress	Ensemble of Brazilian fortresses	2015	K	5997	includes the São Antônio de Ratones Fort , Santa Cruz de Anhatomirim Fort , Santo Amaro da Barra Grande Fortress , São João Fort , Santa Cruz da Barra Fortress , São João Fortress , Nossa Senhora de Monte Serrat Fort , Santo Antônio da Barra Fort , Santa Maria Fort , São Diogo Fort , Forte São Marcelo , São Tiago das Cinco Pontas Fort , São João Batista do Brum Fort , Santa Cruz de Itamaracá Fort , Santa Catarina Fort , Reis Magos Fort , São José Fortress , Príncipe da Beira Fort and the Coimbra Fort
(more pictures)	Cedro dam in the Quixadá monoliths	2015	K	5998	The historic dam was built from 1890 to 1906 near the town of Quixadá amid a group of island mountains known as the Monoliths of Quixadá .
	Geoglyphs of Acre	2015	K	5999	The geoglyphs in the state of Acre are low embankments and trenches that represent variously shaped geometric structures.
(more pictures)	Itacoatiaras of the Ingá River ( location )	2015	K	6000	is a rock formation with petroglyphs in the middle of the Ingá River near the town of Ingá (Paraíba) in Paraíba .
	Roberto-Burle-Marx-Stätte ( location )	2015	K	6001	Workplace of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx with his house and library in Rio de Janeiro
(more pictures)	Lençóis Maranhenses National Park	2017	N	6261	Dune area on the coast of Maranhão state

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

 Map with all coordinates of former World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Franciscan monasteries in the north-east of Brazil	1996-2011	K	34	included João Pessoa ( Paraíba , proposed as early as 1982), Olinda ( Pernambuco ), São Cristóvão (Sergipe) , Marechal Deodoro and Penedo ( Sergipe ), Salvador (Bahia) , São Francisco do Conde and Cairu ( Bahia ) Postponed in 2008, Olinda, São Cristóvão and Salvador (Bahia) are already part of the World Heritage
	Alto-Ribiera Valley Protected Area	1999-2005	K

Web links

Commons : UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Brazil  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Brazil on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brazil. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ German names according to the World Heritage List. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on January 20, 2018 . 
3. ^ Tentative list of Brazil. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 13, 2018 . 
4. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Brazil. In: World Heritage Site. Accessed March 13, 2018 . 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap