World Heritage in Colombia

The world heritage in Colombia (as of 2018) includes nine UNESCO world heritage sites , including six world cultural heritage sites, two world natural heritage sites and one mixed site. Colombia acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1983, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1984. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2018.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Colombia 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
	Port, fortifications and monuments of the colonial era in Cartagena ( location )	1984	K	285
	Los Katíos National Park ( location )	1994	N	711	The national park was on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger from 2009 to 2015 .
	Historic Center of Santa Cruz de Mompox ( Location )	1995	K	742
	Tierradentro Archaeological Park	1995	K	743
	San Agustín Archaeological Park	1995	K	744	Archaeological site of the San Agustin culture near the city of San Agustin
	Malpelo nature reserve ( location )	2006	N	1216	Island in the eastern Pacific about 250 km off the coast of Colombia
	Coffee cultural landscape	2011	K	1121	Coffee growing areas in the western and central Cordilleras
	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 Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, includes 9 individual sites in Colombia)
	Chiribiquete National Park - “The Maloca des Jaguars”	2018	K / N	1174	In 2012 a revised version with a more detailed description and revised inclusion criteria was placed on the tentative list (Ref. 5758 ), according to which the nature park should be proposed as a mixed cultural and natural world heritage site without deleting the previous entry.

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 2018, 15 sites are entered in the tentative list of Colombia, the last entry was made in 2013. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year they were included in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Buritaca 200 - Ciudad Perdida - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta ( location )	1993	K	147	Buritaca 200 is the archaeological name for Ciudad Perdida , the ruined city ​​of an indigenous settlement from the 9th to 16th centuries on the Río Buritaca in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta . Buritica is also included in the proposal submitted in 2012 for the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Tayrona National Parks with their archaeological sites (Ref. 5765 ).
	Pre-Columbian hydraulic system of the Río San Jorge	1993	K	149	In 2012, a revised version with a more detailed description and additional inclusion criterion was placed on the tentative list (Ref. 5764 ) without deleting the earlier entry.
	Seaflower Marine Reserve	2007	N	5166	Seaflower is an approximately 60,000 km² marine reserve in the San Andrés and Providencia archipelago belonging to Colombia off the coast of Nicaragua and part of the Seaflower biosphere reserve, which covers the entire archipelago .
	Canal del Dique	2012	K	5756
	Cultural landscape of the Lower Chicamocha Valley	2012	K / N	5757
	University city of Bogotá ( location )	2012	K	5759	On the 120 hectare campus area, the university town was built as a new district of Bogotá , essentially within a decade from 1936 .
Catedral de Sal	Cultural landscape of the salt cities	2012	K	5761	Salt has been mined in the cultural landscape around the cities of Nemocón , Tausa and Zipaquirá with the Catedral de Sal for around 2000 years .
	National parks Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Tayrona with their archaeological sites	2012	K / N	5765	includes the Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona with the archaeological sites in them
(more pictures)	Tatacoa Desert ( location )	2012	K / N	5766
	Temple of the Catholic Teaching	2012	K	5767	includes the seven churches of San Miguel de Avirama, San Antonio de Chinas, San Andrés de Pisimbalá, Santa Rosa de Lima o Capisisco, Santa Rosa de Suin, San Pedro Apóstol de Togoima and San Roque de Yaquivá in the parishes of Páez-Belalcázar and Inzá
	Virgilio Barco Library	2012	K	5768	Library building designed by Rogelio Salmona in Bogotá
	United Fruit Company infrastructure	2012	K	5770
	The south of the Ricaurte province	2012	K / N	5771	Includes the former Villa de Leyva Cultural Landscape nomination .
(more pictures)	Puente de Occidente ( location )	2012	K	5772	Single lane road bridge between Olaya and Santa Fe de Antioquia , east and west of the Cauca River .
	Cultural landscape of the popular stilt houses of Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta and Medio Atrato	2013	K	5842	Stilt houses on the lagoon of Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta and in the municipality of Medio Atrato

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
	Parque Nacional Natural El Tuparro ( location )	1988-1996	N
	Parque Nacional Natural Utría ( location )	1988-1996	N
	Historic center of Popayán	1989-1989	K
	Historic center of Santa Fe de Bogota	1999-2003	K		only the university city of Bogotá has been on the tentative list since 2012
	Gorgona and Malpelo Islands, National Coastal and Ocean Marine Parks on the tropical Pacific coast of Colombia	2005-2006	N		Only Malpelo was included in the World Heritage List in 2006, Gorgona (Colombia) not.

Web links

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

• Colombia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Colombia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ At the UNESCO World Heritage Center (WHC) there are 17 entries on the tentative list of Colombia (see next individual record), but two sites have been entered twice or have already been declared a World Heritage Site.
3. ^ Tentative list of Colombia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
4. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Colombia. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 10, 2017 (English). 

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