World Heritage in Uruguay

The World Heritage in Uruguay (as of 2017) includes two UNESCO World Heritage sites , both of which are world cultural heritage sites. Uruguay acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1989, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1995. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2015.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Uruguay 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
	Historic old town of Colonia del Sacramento ( location )	1995	K	747	Historic city center of Colonia del Sacramento , the oldest city in Uruguay
	Cultural and industrial landscape by Fray Bentos ( location )	2015	K	1464	The Fray Bentos industrial landscape is an early example of the industrialization of food production. In 1863, the German engineer Georg Christian Giebert founded the world's first meat extract factory in Fray Bentos.

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) seven sites are entered in the tentative list of Uruguay, the last entry was made in 2015. 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
	Chamangá: area of ​​rock art	2005	K	2033
	Islands and Bay of Colonia del Sacramento	2005	K	2034	planned expansion of the World Heritage Site of Colonia del Sacramento (Ref. 747 )
	Maritime promenade La Rambla in the city of Montevideo ( location )	2010	K	5594	22 kilometers long embankment of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .
	Modern 20th century architecture of the city of Montevideo	2010	K	5595
	The work of the engineer Eladio Dieste	2010	K	5596	Eladio Dieste was a Uruguayan architect and civil engineer who designed many public, industrial, commercial, and religious buildings in Uruguay.
	Quartier Peñarol: the historic old town and railway industrial landscape ( location )	2014	K	5923	District of Montevideo with a former factory site of Ferro Carril Central del Uruguay and railway workers' houses.
	Isla de Flores cultural landscape and its maritime history ( location )	2015	K	5969

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
	Palacio Legislativo ( location )	1995-2016	K	797
	Gruta del Palacio	1998-1998	N	878

Web links

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

• Uruguay on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

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

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