World Heritage in the Dominican Republic

The World Heritage in the Dominican Republic (as of 2018) includes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Dominican Republic ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1985, and the only World Heritage site to date was added to the World Heritage List in 1990.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Dominican Republic 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 ) .

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Colonial City of Santo Domingo ( Location )	1990	K	526

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2018, 13 sites are entered in the tentative list of the Dominican Republic, the last entry was made in 2018. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Jacagua, Villa de Santiago	2001	K	1704	Jacagua is a place in the province of Santiago with a historic church.
(more pictures)	Montecristi	2001	K	1705	Capital of the province of Monte Cristi
	Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo	2001	K	1707	The ruins of Pueblo Viejo or La Vega Vieja in the province of La Vega near the present-day city of Concepción de la Vega was the second planned European settlement in America after La Isabela (Ref. 6289 ).
	Historic center of Puerto Plata	2001	K	1708	Historic center of the city of San Felipe de Puerto Plata
	Old town of Azua de Compostela	2001	K	1709	Historic center of the city of Azua de Compostela
	Sanate sugar mill	2002	K	1714	Single suggestion for the Ruta de los Ingenios series (Route of the Sugar Mills)
	Nuestra Señora de Monte Alegre o la Duquesa sugar mill	2002	K	1715	Single suggestion for the Ruta de los Ingenios series (Route of the Sugar Mills)
Replica of the 1st Church of America	Archaeological site of La Isabela	2018	K	6289	The place La Isabela in the province of Puerto Plata was the first settlement planned by Europeans on American soil. Archaeological investigations revealed five stone buildings of the former settlement, including a church, of which a reconstruction was built nearby. Revision of a proposal from 2001
	Parque Nacional Jaragua ( location )	2018	N	6290	Revision of a 2001 proposal for a natural heritage site into a proposal for a mixed cultural and natural heritage site
Casa Grande, Palavé	America's first colonial sugar mills	2018	K	6291	Of the six individual suggestions submitted in 2001 and 2002 as part of the Ruta de los Ingenios (Route of the Sugar Mills) series of sites from the colonial era that were used for sugar production, four were summarized in this collective proposal in 2018: the sugar mill of Boca de Nigua , the sugar mill of Diego Caballero , the Engombe sugar mill and the Palavé sugar mill ( Lage ).
	Parque Nacional Cotubanamá ( location )	2018	N	6292	and Parque Nacional Del Este called Revised a 2001 proposal for a natural heritage site into a proposal for a cultural heritage site
	Banco de la Plata y la Navidad marine mammal sanctuary	2018	K / N	6293	Sanctuary for marine mammals in the area of sea banks La Plata (Silver Bank) and Navidad
(more pictures)	Pre-Hispanic rock art in the Dominican Republic	2018	K	6294

Web links

Commons : UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Dominican Republic  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Dominican Republic on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dominican Republic. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 21, 2018 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of the Dominican Republic. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 21, 2018 . 

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