World heritage in Togo
The world heritage in Togo (as of 2018) includes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Togo joined the World Heritage Convention in 1998, and the only World Heritage site to date was added to the World Heritage List in 2004.
World heritage sites
The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Togo 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 endangered world heritage ).
Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
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Koutammakou - land of the Batammariba ( location ) |
2004 | K | 1140 | The Koutammakou landscape is inhabited by the Batammariba . The houses are made of clay and often have two floors. |
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, seven sites are entered in the tentative list of Togo, the last entry was made in 2002. 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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Nok and Mamproug granary caves | 2000 | K | 1504 | ||
Agglomeration Aného-Glidji ( location ) |
2000 | K | 1505 | includes the city of Aného , the coastal strip between the sea and the lagoon, the German administrative center Zébé and the holy place Glidji | |
Governor's Palace | 2002 | K | 1613 | The palace in the old town of Lomé was built during the German colonial era | |
Woold Homé | 2002 | K | 1614 | House of a British slave trader in Agbodrafo | |
Fazao-Malfakassa National Park ( location ) |
2002 | K / N | 1615 | largest national park in Togo | |
Alédjo game reserve | 2002 | K / N | 1616 | ||
Kéran National Park and Oti Mandouri Wildlife Reserve | 2002 | N | 1617 | The Kéran National Park ( Lage ) contains tree savannahs, dry forests, gallery forests, sparsely vegetated plains with rocky subsoil and floodplain areas.
The Oti Mandouri Game Reserve ( location ) includes savannah and seasonally flooded grasslands on both sides of the Oti River . |
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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Bandjeli and Nagbani | 1987-1987 | K | |||
Wall of Notsé | 1987-1987 | K | Remains of the ramparts of the city of Notsé , capital of the Ewe ethnic group , in the Plateaux region . |
Web links
- Togo on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Togo. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 17, 2018 .
- ^ Tentative list of Togo. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 17, 2018 .
- ^ Former Tentative Sites of XYZ. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .