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Há 4 dias · This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee. The first World Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands.
Há 5 dias · Arranged by the UNESCO regions, 23 of the listed sites are located in the Arab States, 14 in Africa, 6 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 6 in Asia and the Pacific, and 7 in Europe and North America. The majority of the endangered natural sites (11) are located in Africa.
Há 4 dias · The table lists information about each World Heritage Site: Name: as listed by the World Heritage Committee Location: in one of the UK's constituent countries and overseas territories, with co-ordinates provided by UNESCO Period: time period of significance, typically of construction
6 de mai. de 2024 · World Heritage site, any of various areas or objects inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) World Heritage List. The sites are designated as having “outstanding universal value” under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
16 de mai. de 2024 · Machu Picchu, site of ancient Inca ruins located about 50 miles from Cuzco, Peru, in the Cordillera de Vilcabamba of the Andes Mountains. One of the few major pre-Columbian ruins found nearly intact, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
20 de mai. de 2024 · With around 1 million animal and plant species at threat of extinction today, World Heritage sites were found to represent a haven for over 20,000 globally threatened species according to a joint assessment by IUCN and UNESCO published in 2023 (see full assessment here ).
23 de mai. de 2024 · Yellowstone was designated a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 1976 and a World Heritage site in 1978. The park , which forms a squarelike rectangle with an irregular eastern side, is 63 miles (101 km) from north to south and 54 miles (87 km) from east to west at its widest point and covers an area of 3,472 square miles (8,992 square km).
