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28
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6
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104
Cultural
38
Natural
8
Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 City of Quito EC C LAC 70 2
1978 Galápagos Islands EC N LAC 14,066,514 1
1979 Antigua Guatemala GT C LAC 0 65
1979 Tikal National Park GT M LAC 57,600 64
1980 Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo PA C LAC 0 135
1980 Historic Town of Ouro Preto BR C LAC 168 124
1980 Maya Site of Copan HN C LAC 15 129
1981 Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua GT C LAC 34 149
1981 Darien National Park PA N LAC 579,000 159
1981 Los Glaciares National Park # AR N LAC 726,927 145
1982 Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda BR C LAC 191 189
1982 National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers HT C LAC 25,286 180
1982 Old Havana and its Fortification System CU C LAC 239 204
1982 Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve HN N LAC 350,000 196
1983 City of Cuzco PE C LAC 142 273
1983 Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu PE M LAC 38,161 274
1983 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) * AR C LAC 265 275
1983 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) * BR C LAC 265 275
1983 Sangay National Park # EC N LAC 271,925 260
1983 Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park * CR N LAC 570,045 205
1983 Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park * PA N LAC 570,045 205
1984 Iguazu National Park AR N LAC 55,000 303
1984 Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena CO C LAC 0 285
1985 Chavin (Archaeological Site) PE C LAC 15 330
1985 Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia BR C LAC 200 309
1985 Huascarán National Park # PE N LAC 340,000 333
1985 Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas BR C LAC 2 334
1986 Chan Chan Archaeological Zone PE C LAC 1,415 366
1986 Iguaçu National Park BR N LAC 169,696 355
1987 Brasilia BR C LAC 11,269 445
1987 City of Potosí BO C LAC 2,211 420
1987 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco MX C LAC 3,011 412
1987 Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán MX C LAC 4,375 415
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla MX C LAC 690 416
1987 Manú National Park PE N LAC 1,716,295 402
1987 Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque MX C LAC 1,772 411
1987 Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan MX C LAC 250 414
1987 Sian Ka'an MX N LAC 528,000 410
1988 Historic Centre of Lima 1 PE C LAC 278 500
1988 Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines MX C LAC 2,168 482
1988 Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza MX C LAC 0 483
1988 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios CU C LAC 0 460
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo DO C LAC 106 526
1990 Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos BO C LAC 0 529
1990 Río Abiseo National Park PE M LAC 272,408 548
1991 Historic Centre of Morelia MX C LAC 390 585
1991 Historic City of Sucre BO C LAC 0 566
1991 Serra da Capivara National Park BR C LAC 130,600 606
1992 El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City MX C LAC 240 631
1993 Coro and its Port VE C LAC 18 658
1993 Historic Centre of Zacatecas MX C LAC 208 676
1993 Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue PY C LAC 28 648
1993 Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site SV C LAC 3,200 675
1993 Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco MX C LAC 182,600 714
1993 Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino MX N LAC 369,631 554
1994 Canaima National Park VE N LAC 3,000,000 701
1994 Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl MX C LAC 24 702
1994 Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa PE C LAC 75,358 700
1994 Los Katíos National Park CO N LAC 72,000 711
1995 Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox CO C LAC 54 742
1995 Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento UY C LAC 19 747
1995 National Archeological Park of Tierradentro CO C LAC 39 743
1995 Rapa Nui National Park CL C LAC 6,666 715
1995 San Agustín Archaeological Park CO C LAC 0 744
1996 Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System BZ N LAC 96,300 764
1996 Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro MX C LAC 258 792
1996 Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal MX C LAC 2,060 791
1997 Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá PA C LAC 57 790
1997 Cocos Island National Park CR N LAC 199,700 820
1997 Historic Centre of São Luís BR C LAC 67 821
1997 Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara MX C LAC 2 815
1997 Morne Trois Pitons National Park DM N LAC 6,857 814
1997 San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba CU C LAC 94 841
1998 Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes MX C LAC 147 560
1998 Fuerte de Samaipata BO C LAC 0 883
1998 Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan MX C LAC 75 862
1999 Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco MX C LAC 708 939
1999 Area de Conservación Guanacaste CR N LAC 147,000 928
1999 Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves BR N LAC 468,193 893
1999 Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park KN C LAC 15 910
1999 Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas AR C LAC 600 936
1999 Desembarco del Granma National Park CU N LAC 32,576 889
1999 Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves BR N LAC 111,930 892
1999 Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca EC C LAC 224 863
1999 Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina BR C LAC 29 890
1999 Historic Fortified Town of Campeche MX C LAC 181 895
1999 Península Valdés AR N LAC 360,000 937
1999 Viñales Valley CU C LAC 13,200 840
2000 Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba CU C LAC 81,475 1008
2000 Central Amazon Conservation Complex 2 BR N LAC 5,232,018 998
2000 Central Suriname Nature Reserve SR N LAC 1,600,000 1017
2000 Churches of Chiloé CL C LAC 14 971
2000 Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas VE C LAC 164 986
2000 Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa PE C LAC 167 1016
2000 Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks AR N LAC 275,369 966
2000 Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba AR C LAC 38 995
2000 Noel Kempff Mercado National Park BO N LAC 1,523,446 967
2000 Pantanal Conservation Area BR N LAC 187,818 999
2000 Ruins of León Viejo NI C LAC 32 613
2000 Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture BO C LAC 72 567
2001 Alejandro de Humboldt National Park CU N LAC 71,140 839
2001 Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves BR N LAC 43,270 1000
2001 Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks BR N LAC 381,430 1035
2001 Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás BR C LAC 40 993
2002 Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche MX M LAC 331,397 1061
2002 Historic Inner City of Paramaribo SR C LAC 30 940
2003 Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro MX C LAC 104 1079
2003 Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso CL C LAC 23 959
2003 Quebrada de Humahuaca AR C LAC 172,116 1116
2004 Luis Barragán House and Studio MX C LAC 0 1136
2004 Pitons Management Area LC N LAC 2,909 1161
2005 Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection PA N LAC 270,125 1138
2005 Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works CL C LAC 573 1178
2005 Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California MX N LAC 688,558 1182
2005 Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos CU C LAC 70 1202
2006 Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila MX C LAC 35,019 1209
2006 Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary CO N LAC 857,500 1216
2006 Sewell Mining Town CL C LAC 17 1214
2007 Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX C LAC 177 1250
2008 Historic Centre of Camagüey CU C LAC 54 1270
2008 Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve MX N LAC 13,552 1290
2008 Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco MX C LAC 47 1274
2009 Sacred City of Caral-Supe PE C LAC 626 1269
2010 Camino Real de Tierra Adentro MX C LAC 3,102 1351
2010 Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca MX C LAC 1,515 1352
2010 São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão BR C LAC 3 1272
2011 Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia CO C LAC 141,120 1121
2011 Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison BB C LAC 187 1376
2011 León Cathedral NI C LAC 1 1236
2012 Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea BR C LAC 7,249 1100
2013 El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve MX N LAC 714,566 1410
2014 Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís CR C LAC 25 1453
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System * AR C LAC 3,643 1459
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System * BO C LAC 3,643 1459
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System * CL C LAC 3,643 1459
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System * CO C LAC 3,643 1459
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System * EC C LAC 3,643 1459
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System * PE C LAC 3,643 1459
2015 Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System MX C LAC 6,540 1463
2015 Blue and John Crow Mountains JM M LAC 26,252 1356
2015 Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape UY C LAC 274 1464
2016 Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites AG C LAC 255 1499
2016 Archipiélago de Revillagigedo MX N LAC 636,685 1510
2016 Pampulha Modern Ensemble BR C LAC 154 1493
2016 The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement * AR C LAC 98 1321
2017 Los Alerces National Park AR N LAC 188,379 1526
2017 Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site BR C LAC 0 1548
2018 Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar” CO M LAC 2,782,354 1174
2018 Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica MX M LAC 145,255 1534
2019 Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity BR M LAC 173,164 1308
2021 Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex PE C LAC 4,480 1624
2021 Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region CL C LAC 0 1634
2021 Sítio Roberto Burle Marx BR C LAC 41 1620
2021 The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church of Atlántida UY C LAC 1 1612
2023 ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture and Extermination AR C LAC 1 1681
2023 Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery SR C LAC 25 1680
2023 National Archaeological Park Tak’alik Ab’aj GT C LAC 15 1663
Notes

  1. The "Convent Ensemble of San Francisco de Lima", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Historic Centre of Lima".

  2. Extension of "Jaú National Park".

*: transboundary property

#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1

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