Ecuador

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List

• City of Quito (1978)
• Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca (1999)

• Galápagos Islands (1978)
• Sangay National Park (1983)

Properties submitted on the Tentative List

• Ciudad de Zaruma (1998)
• Sitio arqueológico de Ingapirca (1998)
• Parque Nacional Machalilla (1998)
• Bosque petrificado de Puyango (1998)
• Complejo de fortificaciones precolombinas de Pambamarca (1998)
• Lacs du Cajas et Ruines de Paredones (2003)

Activities

• Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape Project
• Main Andean Road - Qhapaq Ñan

News

• Mar 19, 2008
  Ecuador’s “Galápagos Invasive Species” Fund gets injection of US 2.19 million dollars
• Jun 29, 2007
  Twenty-two new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, and one deleted during Committee meeting in Christchurch
• Jun 26, 2007
  Galápagos and Niokolo-Koba National Park inscribed on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger
• Apr 16, 2007
  UNESCO Mission confirms threat to Galápagos Islands
• Apr 12, 2007
  UNESCO-IUCN Mission to Galápagos Islands World Heritage Site
• Jul 13, 2005
  Three sites withdrawn from UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger

Events

• Apr 3, 2006 - Apr 5, 2006
  2nd Scientific Committee Meeting - Qhapaq Ñan, Main Andean Road
• Sep 30, 2005
  Conference: The Charles Darwin Research Station and Foundation in Galapagos: New Directions and Challenges for the Future

Mandates to the World Heritage Committee

• 1976 - 1980
• 1995 - 2001

Contacts

• Mr Marcelo Vazquez
  Chargé d'Affaires a. i. , Deputy Permanent Delegate
  Permanent Delegation of Ecuador to UNESCO
  Maison de l'UNESCO
  Bureau M5.23
  1, rue Miollis
  75732 PARIS Cedex 15
  Tel: 01.45.68.33.03
  Fax: 01.43.06.49.06
  EMail: dl.ecuador@unesco.org
  Source: UNESCO/ERC
• Comisión Nacional Ecuatoriana de Cooperación con la UNESCO
  Presidente: Sr Raúl Vallejo Corral*
  Secretaria Permanente: Sra. Patricia Ashton
  Edificio del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (2° piso)
  Calle San Salvador N° E6-49 y Eloy Alfaro
  QUITO
  ECUADOR
  Tel: (593.2) 255 11 46; (593.2) 223 52 25; (593.2) 223 59 45
  Fax: (593.2) 250 35 37
  EMail: cnimec@yahoo.com;
  Source: UNESCO/ERC