World Heritage in Costa Rica

The world heritage in Costa Rica includes (as of 2017) four UNESCO world heritage sites , including one world cultural heritage site and three world natural heritage sites. Costa Rica ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1977, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1983. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2014.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica 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
	Talamanca Nature Reserve and La Amistad National Park	1983	N	205	includes the Talamanca Mountains and La Amistad National Park
	Coconut Island National Park ( location )	1997	N	820
	Guanacaste Sanctuary	1999	N	928	Includes the Santa Rosa , Guanacaste and Rincón de la Vieja National Parks in the Guanacaste Province
	Pre-Columbian settlements and stone balls of the Diquis	2014	K		Settlements of the Diquís culture with the stone balls characteristic of this culture

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

Currently (2016) one site is entered in the tentative list of Costa Rica, the entry took place in 2003. 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
Corcovado National Park	Biological reserve Corcovado National Park and Isla del Caño	2003	N	1795	includes the Corcovado National Park ( location ) with the associated Isla del Caño ( location )

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These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO.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
	Nikoya Church	1980-1980	K
	Orosi Church	1980-1980	K
	National Monument in San José ( location )	1980-1980	K		National monument in the capital, San José
	National Theater of Costa Rica	1980-1980	K
	Ruins of Ujarrás	1980-1981	K
	Hacienda Santa Rosa	1980-1981	K
	Guayabo de Turrialba Archaeological National Park	1980-1984	K
	San José Limón Railway Region	1994-1996	K

Web links

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

• Costa Rica on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Costa Rica. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 10, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Costa Rica. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 10, 2017 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Costa Rica. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 10, 2017 (English). 

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