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State of Conservation

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Date Start: 1999close
Date end:1999close
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (1999)
States Parties: Mexico
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Earthquake
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore (1999)
States Parties: Pakistan
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Water infrastructure
Group of Monuments at Hampi (1999)
States Parties: India
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure Ground transport infrastructure Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Historic Areas of Istanbul (1999)
States Parties: Türkiye
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Earthquake Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Need to monitor movements which could affect the structure of the building
Historic Cairo (1999)
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn (1999)
States Parties: Estonia
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation
Historic Centre of Florence (1999)
States Parties: Italy
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5
Threats*: Major linear utilities
Historic Centre of Puebla (1999)
States Parties: Mexico
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Commercial development Deliberate destruction of heritage Earthquake Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa (1999)
States Parties: China
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management activities Management systems/ management plan Relative humidity Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses
Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (1999)
States Parties: Georgia
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Financial resources High impact research / monitoring activities Housing Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Critical conditions of particularly two archaeological sites
Island of Mozambique (1999)
States Parties: Mozambique
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Housing Management systems/ management plan Solid waste Storms
Other Threats: Precarious state of conservation of the stone
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil) (1999)
States Parties: Argentina Brazil
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Industrial areas Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Aggressive natural environment
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site (1999)
States Parties: El Salvador
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan Storms
Kathmandu Valley (1999)
States Parties: Nepal
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.204/INF.19,WHC-99/CONF.209/14,WHC.99/CONF.208/INF.8A,WHC.99/CONF.208/INF.8B,WHC.99/CONF.208/INF.8C
Threats*: Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure Housing Land conversion Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Need for restoration/consolidation works
Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (1999)
States Parties: Ukraine
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5
Threats*: High impact research / monitoring activities Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha (1999)
States Parties: Nepal
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5,WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Extremely harsh natural environment
Maya Site of Copan (1999)
States Parties: Honduras
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan Storms
Other Threats: Attention to be paid to the conservation of stone and stuccos
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur (1999)
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Land conversion Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Deterioration of the stones
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay (1999)
States Parties: France
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.209/14
Threats*: Erosion and siltation/ deposition Management systems/ management plan
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae (1999)
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 1999
Document Source: WHC-99/CONF.204/5
Threats*: Housing
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Management systems/ management plan 41 Housing 18 Management activities 17 Ground transport infrastructure 9 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 9 Storms 8 Financial resources 6 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 5 Legal framework 5 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 4 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 4 Earthquake 4 Localised utilities 3 Major linear utilities 3 Land conversion 3 Water (rain/water table) 3 Deliberate destruction of heritage 3 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 3 Human resources 3 Relative humidity 2 Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses 2 Illegal activities 2 High impact research / monitoring activities 2 Commercial development 1 Industrial areas 1 Interpretative and visitation facilities 1 Marine transport infrastructure 1 Water infrastructure 1 Air pollution 1 Solid waste 1 Quarrying 1 Temperature 1 Wind 1 Terrorism 1 Other climate change impacts 1 Volcanic eruption 1

* : The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).

** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.


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