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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 ). |
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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.
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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 . | |
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 | |
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 . | |
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 |
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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
- Colombia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colombia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 2, 2018 .
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Tentative list of Colombia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 2, 2018 .
- ^ Former Tentative Sites of Colombia. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 10, 2017 (English).