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         <title>Damage evaluated at Machu Picchu after torrential rains</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In response to the recent impacts of torrential rains at the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, a technical visit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre was carried out by Nuria Sanz, Chief of the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit, from 6-10 February in Lima, Peru. World Heritage Centre staff met with Ministers of Environment and Tourism, Directors of the Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC) and Servicio Nacional de Areas Protegidas de Per&amp;uacute; (SERNANP), Civil defense organization  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/587</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Torrential rains cause death and damage at Peruvian World Heritage sites </title>
         <description><![CDATA[Torrential rains which have occurred in Peru over the last five days have caused the death of a tourist and a tour guide, and have impacted two World Heritage properties, City of Cuzco, and The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, both inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1983.
Peruvian regional and national authorities have declared a state of emergency following massive landslides and flooding in the departments of Cuzco, Apurimac, Puno, Huancavelica and Jun&amp;iacute;n, and indicate that  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/580</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of Bordeaux, Machu Picchu, Timbuktu and Samarkand</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee has asked that &amp;ldquo;reinforced monitoring&amp;rdquo; be applied to four properties on UNESCO&amp;rsquo;s World Heritage List in addition to the seven for which the surveillance mechanism is already in place.
Under the new monitoring mechanism, established by the World Heritage Committee in 2007, regular missions can be dispatched to World Heritage sites subjected to particular stress. The purpose of the monitoring mechanism, which typically involves sending experts  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/454</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO joins United Nations effort in response to Peruvian earthquake</title>
         <description><![CDATA[UNESCO&amp;#39;s&#xa0;World Heritage Centre extends its deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by the powerful August 15 earthquake in Peru,&#xa0;which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale and left&#xa0;some 500 people dead and over a thousand victims.&#xa0;Peru has 10 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, including the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, the Historic Centre of Lima, and the&#xa0;Chan Chan Archeological Zone.&#xa0;No reports of major damage&#xa0;to these sites have been received&#xa0;so far, but  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/373</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO sends mission to assess the state of conservation of Machu Picchu World Heritage Site</title>
         <description><![CDATA[UNESCO will send a mission to the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Peru, in view of concerns by the World Heritage Committee for the conservation of this outstanding Andean archaeological centre and its natural environment, inscribed as a mixed natural and cultural site on the World Heritage List in 1983.From 23 to 30 April, the UNESCO mission, which will include the participation of representatives of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the International Council on Monuments and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/323</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Fire At Machu Picchu, Peru, 6-11 September</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Between 6 and 11 September, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, were threatened by a large brush fire, eventually consuming over 800 hectares of mountain forest. At one time more than 400 firefighters pumped water on the dense vegetation on the hills surrounding the World Heritage site to prevent the fire from reaching the ruins.The fire was believed to have been started by local farmers burning weeds on the bank of the nearby Urubamba River to clear farmland. The fire was eventually brought  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/215</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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