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Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena

Colombia
Date of Inscription: 1984
Criteria: (iv)(vi)
Bolivar Department
N10 25 W75 32
Ref: 285

Brief Description

Situated in a bay in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena has the most extensive fortifications in South America. A system of zones divides the city into three neighbourhoods: San Pedro, with the cathedral and many Andalusian-style palaces; San Diego, where merchants and the middle class lived; and Gethsemani, the 'popular quarter'.