World Heritage in Peru

The world heritage in Peru (as of 2016) includes twelve UNESCO world heritage sites , including eight world cultural heritage sites, two world natural heritage sites and two mixed cultural and natural heritage sites. Peru ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1982, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1983. The last World Heritage Site to date in Peru was registered in 2014, and one site is on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger .

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Peru 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
	City of Cusco	1983	K	273
	Inca mountain fortress Machu Picchu ( location )	1983	K / N	274	Machu Picchu is a well-preserved ruined city in Peru. The Incas built the city in the 15th century at an altitude of 2360 meters on a ridge.
	Sanctuary of Chavín de Huántar	1985	K	330
	Huascarán National Park	1985	N	333
	Chan Chan ruined city ( location )	1986	K (R)	366
	Manú National Park	1987	N	402
(more pictures)	Lima old town with Franciscan monastery	1988	K	500	Historic city center of the capital Lima with the San Francisco monastery
	Río Abiseo National Park	1990	K / N	548
	Lines and floor drawings of Nasca and Palpa	1994	K	700
	Historic city center of Arequipa	2000	K	1016	Historic center of the city of Arequipa
	Holy city of Caral-Supe	2009	K	1269
	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, Colombia, Bolivia and Argentina, includes 54 individual sites in Peru)

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 (2020) 24 sites are entered in the tentative list of Peru, the last entries were made in 2019. 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
	Historic center of Trujillo	1996	K	510	Historic center of the city of Trujillo
	Historic center of Cajamarca	2002	K	1646	Historic center of the city of Cajamarca
	Lake Titicaca ( location )	2005	K / N	5080
	Chanquillo Astronomical Complex	2013	K	5792
	Santa Bárbara Mining Complex	2017	K	6263
	Marcahuamachuco Archaeological Complex	2019	K	6409
	Toro Muerto Archaeological Complex	2019	K	6408
	Baroque temple of Collao	2019	K	6410	8 churches: San Francisco de Asis in Ayaviri , San Jeronimo in Asillo , Santiago Apostol in Lampa , San Carlos in Puno , San Pedro Martir and Santa Cruz de Jerusalen in July (Peru) , Santiago Apostol in Pomata and San Pedro in Zepita
	Ayacucho battlefield	2019	K	6413
	Ceremonial centers and forests in the La Leche river valley	2019	K / N	6419	The nominations include the pyramids of Túcume and the Bosque de Pómac
	Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley	2019	K	6411	Eight pre-colonial sites of the Chachapoya people on Utcubamba . Kuelap has been on the tentative list since 2011.
	Cultural landscape of the Sondondo river valley	2019	K	6417	High plateau of Cabana, Sondondo terraces as well as Negro Mayo terraces and Bofedales
	Guano Islands, Islets and Capes National Reserve System form Peru (RNSIIPG)	2019	N	6422	23 stretches of coastline and islands along Peru. The Paracas National Park was on the tentative list as early as 1984–1991.
	Huayllay National Sanctuary	2019	N	6421
	Las Huaringas lagoons	2019	K	6415
	Nasca aqueducts	2019	K	6407
	Paleontological Sites of Pisco and the Camana Basin	2019	N	6418
	Peruvian Central Railway	2019	K	6416	Route from Port of Callao and Lima
	Rural temples of Cuzco	2019	K	6406	10 different temples around Cuzco
	Maras salt pans	2019	K	6412
	Sierra del Divisor National Park	2019	N	6420
	The Lomas System on Peru's coast	2019	N	6424	National Reserve of Lachay, Reserved Zone of Lomas de Ancón, Private Conversation Area of ​​Atiquipa
	Wineries and vineyards of traditional Pisco production	2019	K	6414	14 different production sites, 13 of them around Ica
	Sub Cuenca del Cotahuasi Protected Landscape Area	2019	N	6423

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
	Archaeological Complex of Pachacámac ( location )	1996-2019	K	512
	Inca road system	2001-2019	K	1578	The Inca road system between Quito ( Ecuador ) in the north and Santiago ( Chile ) or Mendoza ( Argentina ) in the south. Qhapaq Ñan , the main axis of this road system, has been a World Heritage Site since 2014.

Web links

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

• Peru on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peru. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 16, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Peru. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 16, 2017 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Peru. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved June 21, 2017 (English). 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap