World Heritage in Ecuador

The World Heritage in Ecuador (as of 2016) includes five UNESCO World Heritage sites , including three World Heritage Sites and two World Natural Heritage sites. Ecuador joined the World Heritage Convention in 1975, and two World Heritage sites were among the first to open the World Heritage List in 1978. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2014.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ecuador 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 ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Galapagos Islands ( location )	1978	N	1	The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Due to their distance from other land masses, the Galapagos Islands are characterized by a wide variety of endemic animal and plant species.
	Old Quito ( location )	1978	K	2	Historic city center of Ecuador's capital Quito
	Sangay National Park ( location )	1983	N	260	important refuge for rare animals such as B. Tapirs , spectacled bears and Andean condors .
	Historic Center of Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca ( Location )	1999	K	863	Historic city center of Cuenca
	Qhapaq Ñan, Andean road system	2014	K	1459	The main Andean road, Qhapaq Ñan, was part of the Inca road system in South America. It was the main connection in the north-south direction and extended over 6,000 kilometers. (cross-border with Colombia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, includes 24 individual sites in Ecuador)

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) five sites are entered in the tentative list of Ecuador, the last entry was made in 2016. 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
	Machalilla National Park	1998	K / N	1080
	Petrified Forest of Puyango	1998	N	1081	Petrified forest with fossil tree trunks, ammonites and trilobites
	Gold rush town of Zaruma ( location )	2016	K	6089	Gold mining town founded in 1549 in the Vizcaya cordillera , exploitation of the gold mine since 1537. Zaruma was already on the tentative list from 1998-2016 under the title "City of Zaruma" ( Ref. 1078 )
	Cultural routing of the Trans-Andean Railway from Ecuador	2016	K	6090	Route from Alausí to Bucay past the Nariz del Diablo
	Mayo Chinchipe - Archaeological Landscape of Marañón	2016	K		Archaeological sites of the Mayo Chinchipe culture

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
	Ingapirca archaeological site ( location )	1998-2016	K	1079	most important archaeological site of the Incas in Ecuador.
	Complex of pre-Columbian forts of Pambamarca	1998-2016	K	1082
	El Cajas lakes and Paredones ruins	2003-2016	K / N	1778	Seascape in the Cajas National Park with the ruins of the Paredones trading checkpoint

Web links

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

• Ecuador on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ecuador. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 1, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Ecuador. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 1, 2017 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Ecuador. In: World Heritage Site. Accessed July 1, 2017 . 

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