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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 Mesa Verde National Park US C EUR 21,043 27
1979 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica IT C EUR 432 94
1981 Kakadu National Park AU M APA 1,980,995 147
1982 Tassili n'Ajjer # DZ M ARB 7,200,000 179
1985 Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain ES C EUR 0 310
1985 Rock Art of Alta NO C EUR 54 352
1986 Hattusha: the Hittite Capital TR C EUR 268 377
1987 Elephanta Caves IN C APA 0 244
1987 Mogao Caves CN C APA 23,392 440
1987 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park 1 AU M APA 132,566 447
1988 Xanthos-Letoon TR C EUR 126 484
1991 Serra da Capivara National Park BR C LAC 130,600 606
1993 Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco MX C LAC 182,600 714
1994 Rock Carvings in Tanum SE C EUR 4,138 557
1995 Rapa Nui National Park CL C LAC 6,666 715
1998 Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde * 2 ES C EUR 0 866
1998 Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde * 3 PT C EUR 0 866
1998 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula ES C EUR 0 874
1999 Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas AR C LAC 600 936
1999 Dazu Rock Carvings CN C APA 20 912
2000 Greater Blue Mountains Area AU N APA 1,032,649 917
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * LS M AFR 249,313 985
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * ZA M AFR 249,313 985
2001 Tsodilo BW C AFR 4,800 1021
2003 Matobo Hills ZW C AFR 205,000 306
2004 Petroglyphs of the Archaeological Landscape of Tanbaly KZ C APA 900 1145
2006 Chongoni Rock-Art Area MW C AFR 12,640 476
2006 Kondoa Rock-Art Sites TZ C AFR 233,600 1183
2007 Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda GA M AFR 491,291 1147
2007 Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape AZ C EUR 537 1076
2007 Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes NA C AFR 57 1255
2011 Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai MN C APA 11,300 1382
2011 Wadi Rum Protected Area JO M ARB 74,180 1377
2012 Rock Islands Southern Lagoon PW M APA 100,200 1386
2014 Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche FR C EUR 9 1426
2015 Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia SA C ARB 2,044 1472
2016 Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape TD M AFR 2,441,200 1475
2016 Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape CN C APA 6,622 1508
2018 Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar” CO M LAC 2,782,354 1174
2019 Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape ES C EUR 9,425 1578
2019 Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi CA C EUR 1,106 1597
2021 Ḥimā Cultural Area SA C ARB 242 1619
2021 Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea RU C EUR 0 1654
Notes

  1. Renomination of "Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park" under cultural criteria.

  2. Extension de « Sites d'art rupestre préhistorique de la vallée de Côa », Portugal

  3. Extension de « Sites d'art rupestre préhistorique de la vallée de Côa », Portugal

*: 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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Cultural Natural Mixed

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