World Heritage in Cuba

The world heritage in Cuba (as of 2017) includes nine UNESCO world heritage sites , including seven world cultural heritage sites and two world natural heritage sites. Cuba ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1981, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1982. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2008.

World heritage sites

La Habana Vieja Trinidad Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca Desembarco del Granma National Park Valle de Viñales Coffee plantations Alexander von Humboldt National Park Cienfuegos Camaguey

Location of the World Heritage Sites in Cuba

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Cuba 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
	Old town and fortifications of Havana ( location )	1982	K	204
	Trinidad and the Valle de los Ingenios ( location )	1988	K	460	Historic center of the city of Trinidad and the sugar factories in the Valle de los Ingenios, 12 km northeast of the city
	Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca ( location )	1997	K	841	a fortress on the coast about 10 km southwest of the city of Santiago de Cuba .
	Desembarco del Granma National Park ( location )	1999	N	889
	Valle de Viñales cultural landscape ( location )	1999	K	840
	Archaeological landscape of the first coffee plantations in southeast Cuba	2000	K	1008
	Alexander von Humboldt National Park ( location )	2001	N	839
Cienfuegos Cathedral	Historic city center of Cienfuegos ( location )	2005	K	1202	Old town of Cienfuegos , the capital of the province of the same name .
	Historic city center of Camagüey ( location )	2008	K	1270	Old town of Camagüey , the capital of the province of the same name .

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) three sites are entered in the tentative list of Cuba, the last entry was made 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
	Instituto Superior de Arte ( location )	2003	K	1798	University educational institution founded in Havana in 1976
	Ciénaga de Zapata National Park ( location )	2003	N	1801	Wetland on the Zapata Peninsula
	Cuban Caribbean reef system	2003	N	1802	includes Jardines de la Reina National Park , Banco de Jagua fauna reserve , east of the Cayo Largo Ecological Reserve , Cayos Avalos Cantiles Rosario National Park , Punta del Este Ecological Reserve , Punta Frances National Park, San Felipe - Los Indios National Park, Guanahacabibes National Park , Banco de Knoll

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
	Sierra Maestra National Park ( location )	1988-1996	N

Web links

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

• Cuba on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

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

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