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12729.
La zone du massif de Termit a un climat subdésertique à désertique. De tels climats sont caractérisés par deux saisons marquées par: la saison sèche de Novembre à Mai et la saison des pluies de Juin à Septembre. C'est ainsi que le territoire du massif  de Termit  reçoit moins de 100 mm de pluie par an. Cette pluviométrie est donc caractérisée par une forte variabilité ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.1073039 Date 05/2006
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Perché comme un nid d'aigle à l'entrée d'un édifice (fajj) (d'où son nom Maaloula qui signifie en araméen "entrée") à 165 mètres d'altitude, ses maisons serrées les unes contre les autres descendent en paliers du sommet de la montagne couvrant le versant méridional pour atteindre la vallée. 5000 âmes y vivent en permanence. Il s'agit d'un village où ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.1073039 Date 08/1999
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Located in the north-west of Washington State, Olympic National Park is renowned for the diversity of its ecosystems. Glacier-clad peaks interspersed with extensive alpine meadows are surrounded by an extensive old growth forest, among which is the best example of intact and protected temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest. Eleven major river systems drain the ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.1073039 Date 10/1981
12732.
‘Project funding’ refers to short to medium-term funding for specific and defined projects, which are not considered part of day-to-day running costs/maintenance.
FAQ Score 2.103642 Date 11/2022
12735.
Antigua and Barbuda Antigua-et-Barbuda Antigua y Barbuda Антигуа и Барбуда أنتيغوا وبربودا 安提瓜和巴布达 Antigua and Barbuda
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 11/1983
12736.
Finland Finlande Finlandia Финляндия فنلندا 芬兰 The Republic of Finland
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 03/1987
12737.
Malaysia Malaisie Malasia Малайзия ماليزيا 马来西亚 Malaysia
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 12/1988
12738.
New Zealand Nouvelle-Zélande Nueva Zelandia Новая Зеландия نيوزيلندا 新西兰 New Zealand
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 11/1984
12739.
Uzbekistan Ouzbékistan Uzbekistán Узбекистан أوزبكستان 乌兹别克斯坦 The Republic of Uzbekistan
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 01/1993
12740.
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Зимбабве زمبابوي 津巴布韦 The Republic of Zimbabwe
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 08/1982
12741.
Montenegro Monténégro Montenegro Черногория الجبل الأسود 黑山
States Parties Score 2.103642 Date 06/2006
12742.
Le site archéologique de Nahr el Kalb est situé à 15km au nord de Beyrouth. Il a été classé par les décrets : No 166/ L.R. du Novembre 1933 et No 225 du 28 Septembre 1934 sur la liste nationale des monuments historiques. En 2005, ce site a été inscrit sur le Registre de la Mémoire du Monde. Le cap de Nahr el Kalb a été considéré depuis l’antiquité comme un obstacle naturel ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.1021514 Date 11/2019
12743.
Il s'agit du plus grand complexe du genre jamais réalisé. Il associe trois composantes : les captages de quatre sources principales avec dotation d'un cadre monumental, le nymphée connu couramment sous l'appellation de « temple des eaux », d'une grande valeur archéologique, un aqueduc de 132 km courant en général à fleur de terre ou en parcours souterrain et ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.0990129 Date 02/2012
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova visited Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the weekend of 15-16 November for a firsthand look at the way the World Heritage site is being managed. Her visit came amidst widespread concerns over the health of the reef, which experts say is threatened by climate change, pollution and other environmental issues that make careful, long-term ...
News Score 2.0990129 Date 11/2014
12745.
In 2012, Rio de Janeiro, a Carioca landscape between the mountains and the sea, became the first urban cultural landscape ever inscribed on the World Heritage List.  To its beaches, carnival, football and World Heritage, also represented by the archaeological site of the Valongo pier (inscribed in 2017), the Brazilian metropolis now adds yet another attraction: ...
News Score 2.0990129 Date 02/2019
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Spain, Construction work of the Rey Chico festivities hall Need for a joint Spain-ICOMOS Scientific Committee   ,Previous deliberations At its twenty-third session, the Bureau took note that the revision of the Special Plan had begun and recommended that the extension of the cemetery respect the protection of the site.   New information In September 1999, the University ...
State of Conservation Score 2.0990129 Date 10/1999
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France,The second meeting of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999 Second Protocol), the seventh meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the second meeting of the Parties to the Second ...
Events Score 2.0990129 Date 12/2007
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Kyoto, Japan,To conclude the 40th anniversary year, the World Heritage Centre and the Government of Japan will co-organize the "Closing Event of the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention" in Kyoto on 6-8 November 2012. This is made possible thanks to the generous contribution of the host government, directly as well as through the ...
Events Score 2.0990129 Date 11/2012
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,Revitalising World Heritage Site museums in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam Following the brainstorming session held in July in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the first experimental workshop will be organised at the Thang Long Citadel Site Museum in Hanoi, Viet Nam, with the participation of 9 museums relating to cultural sites of the three countries. This project is funded by the ...
Events Score 2.0990129 Date 11/2011
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Following their meeting in Tokyo in December 2004, a group of Afghan and international experts working on the safeguarding of Bamiyan (Afghanistan), as well as representatives of the Afghan and Japanese governments and UNESCO,  today released a list of recommendations for further activities to preserve the Bamiyan site. Bamiyan remains one of the most important examples of ...
Activities Score 2.0990129 Date 03/2022
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The four major town houses - Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta - located in Brussels and designed by the architect Victor Horta, one of the earliest initiators of Art Nouveau, are some of the most remarkable pioneering works of architecture of the end of the 19th century. The stylistic revolution represented by ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.0955968 Date 12/2000
12752.
“The organizational set-up that sets out the operational structure and working methods that allow actions to be taken”. Source(s): Managing Cultural World Heritage
FAQ Score 2.0944595 Date 11/2022
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“The human, financial and intellectual inputs that create operational capacity and facilitate processes”. Source(s): World Heritage Resource Manual, Managing Cultural World Heritage
FAQ Score 2.0944595 Date 11/2022
12780.
Cabo Verde Cabo Verde Cabo Verde Кабо-Верде كابو فيردي 佛得角 the Republic of Cabo Verde
States Parties Score 2.0944595 Date 04/1988
12781.
Mongolia Mongolie Mongolia Монголия منغوليا 蒙古 Mongolia
States Parties Score 2.0944595 Date 02/1990
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Philippines Philippines Filipinas Филиппины الفلبين 菲律宾 The Republic of the Philippines
States Parties Score 2.0944595 Date 09/1985
12783.
Senegal Sénégal Senegal Сенегал السنغال 塞内加尔 The Republic of Senegal
States Parties Score 2.0944595 Date 02/1976
12784.
Area: 350.018 hectares - Perimeter: 380 KmClimate: hot and humid tropical, with one to two month dry season.temp: 27,1 ° year averagepluv: 2.075 mm total /yearAltitude: 5 - 600 m. Geomorpholoqy: The Ecological station is constituted by a 100.000 ha. archipelago, of hundreds of elongated islands and canals within the Rio Negro riverbed, covered by inundated forests. ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.0936656 Date 09/1998
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Area:APA: 150.000 hectares.Including: State Park: 30.702 hectaresClimate: Sub-humid to semi-arid Tropical7 with 6 month dry seasontemp: 24° C year average.· pluv: 850 mm total /year Altitude: +1- 455- 834 m.Geomorphology and hydrology:Pernaçu river is one of the few permanent affluents of the Sao Francisco river on its course from sub-humid tropical Cerrado's where it ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.0936656 Date 09/1998
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This national park, located in the extreme south-western tip of Java on the Sunda shelf, includes the Ujung Kulon peninsula and several offshore islands and encompasses the natural reserve of Krakatoa. In addition to its natural beauty and geological interest – particularly for the study of inland volcanoes – it contains the largest remaining area of lowland rainforests in ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.0936656 Date 12/1991
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The Silk Roads encompass some of the most complex and fascinating systems in the history of world civilizations. A shifting network of roads and pathways for trade that evolved over centuries, it enabled the exchange of cargo such as silk, spices, gems, furs, but also shared art, religion and technology. It is also one of the first cultural ‘corridors’ to be inscribed on ...
Publications Score 2.0936656 Date 11/2019
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Map(s) showing the boundaries of the area(s) and buffer zone(s), where applicable, of the World Heritage property as inscribed by the World Heritage Committee
FAQ Score 2.085357 Date 11/2022
12789.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites regularly conducts and publishes thematic studies in the context of the World Heritage Convention. An overview of the publications can be found here.
FAQ Score 2.085357 Date 11/2022
12802.
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Буркина-Фасо بوركينا فاسو 布基纳法索 Burkina Faso
States Parties Score 2.085357 Date 04/1987
12803.
Norway Norvège Noruega Норвегия النرويج 挪威 The Kingdom of Norway
States Parties Score 2.085357 Date 05/1977
12804.
The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an alternative ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.0836754 Date 07/2003
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Le paysage culturel des Plantations à Parfums des Iles de la Lune est un paysage culturel évolutif vivant qui conserve un rôle social actif dans la société contemporaine, et qui demeure étroitement associé au mode de vie traditionnel des populations rurales comoriennes et dans lequel le processus évolutif continue. La culture de plantes à parfums est une caractéristique ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.081016 Date 01/2007
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Le bien proposé pour inscription est le village de sidi Bou Saïd, un village côtier de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, installé sur un promontoire surplombant Carthage et le golfe de Tunis et offrant des vues panoramiques sur le Cap Bon (Promontoire de Mercure) et les îles Zembra et Zembretta (les Aegimures) au nord-est, et le Cap de Sidi Ali Mekki (Promontoire d’Apollon) ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.081016 Date 04/2024
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In relation to boundaries for effective protection, paragraphs 99-102 of the Operational Guidelines state: ‘99. The delineation of boundaries is an essential requirement in the establishment of effective protection of nominated properties. Boundaries should be drawn to incorporate all the attributes that convey the Outstanding Universal Value and to ensure the integrity ...
FAQ Score 2.0783074 Date 11/2022
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The Chirundu Fossil Forest National Monument site contains fossilised or petrified tree trunks of the Karoo age. It is situated in customary land of Chief Sikoongo of the Gwembe District in the Southern Province of Zambia and is 21 kilometres from the Chirundu border which forms a boundary with Zimbabwe. The site has superb fossilised tree trunks measuring up to 1.2m in ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.0783074 Date 10/2009
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Burkina Faso joined the rank of countries that have World Heritage properties on their territory with the inscription of the Ruins of Loropéni on UNESCO’s List on Friday. The 11,130m2 property, the first to be inscribed in the country, with its imposing stone walls is the best preserved of ten fortresses in the Lobi area and is part of a larger group of 100 ...
News Score 2.0783074 Date 06/2009
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‘Other specific groups’ may for example include gender-specific groups, communities who might not visit or reside in or near properties but are still stakeholders, civil society etc.
FAQ Score 2.076333 Date 11/2022
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