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The city of Zaruma is located on the slopes of the western Andes, at 1,200 meters above sea level, amidst rugged terrain with steep slopes that soar from 500 to 3,500 meters high in just 20 kilometers. The higher areas feature deep valleys and canyons, the headwaters of the Moromoro, Calera, Amarillo and Luis Rivers, which join to form the Puyango River. The Puyango then ...

The El Gigante rockshelter is located on the southwestern part of Central Honduras over the Estanzuela River valley floor at a height of 1,300 MASL, allowing for a panoramic view of its surroundings. It is a completely enclosed site with a restricted entrance, given that the lower rim of the shelter is some 3-4 m. above the slope leading to it. Since the vault protects the ...

The three rock shelters of Jasukavenda (Cerro Guasu): Itaguy Guasu, Itaguy Miri, Itaguy'i:S 23° 05' 77.4''; W 55° 59' 0.20''Akua 1: S 22° 40' 16.8''; W 56° 09' 29.5''Akua 2: S 22° 40' 20.4''; W 56° 09' 57.1''The existing rock shelters inside Cerro Corá National Park:Alambique/Amba: S 22° 40' 09,3''; W 56° 00' 39,7''Tujao 1 and 2: S 22° 40' 58''; W 56° 00' 21.6'' The rock ...

Beypazarı is a district of the capital city, Ankara, and located in Central Anatolia 98 km west of the capital. Beypazarı has been settled since ancient times, and holds symbols of ancient traditions with rich historical and natural resources. Though the district has been ruled by the Hittites, Phrygia, Galatia, Rome, Byzantine, Anatolia Seljuk, and Ottoman dynasties, it ...

Ihavandhoo Friday Mosque, N6° 57′ 17.45″, E72° 55′ 38.27″ Meedhoo Friday Mosque, N5° 27′ 27.84″, E72° 57′ 16.41″ Malé Friday Mosque, N4° 10′ 40.79″, E73° 30′ 44.56″ Malé Eid Mosque, N4° 10′ 29.41″, E73° 30′ 15.13″ Fenfushi Friday Mosque, N3° 29′ 21.65″, E72° 47′ 1.61″ Isdhoo Old Mosque, N2° 12′ 96.55″, E73° 58′ 00.74″ The Maldives lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean. ...

No. Name of village or Group of villages Site Coordinates 1 Amkoi 25°13' N, 92°0' E 2 Kudengrim 25°13' N, 92°1' E 3 Kudenthymmai 25°13' N, 92°1' E 4 Khonglah 25°15' N, 92°0' E 5 Nongbarehrim 25°13' N, 91°59' E 6 Nongbareh Lyntiar 25°13' N, 92°0' E 7 Darrang 25°12' N, 92°0' E 8 Sohkha Mission 25°12' N, ...

The Mijikenda Kaya Forests consist of 10 separate forest sites spread over some 200 km along the coast containing the remains of numerous fortified villages, known as kayas, of the Mijikenda people. The kayas, created as of the 16th century but abandoned by the 1940s, are now regarded as the abodes of ancestors and are revered as sacred sites and, as such, are maintained ...

The World Heritage Committee today added 13 cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List and one extension to an existing cultural site in Mexico. Roșia Montană Mining Landscape (Romania), was simultaneously inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger pending the removal of threats to its integrity posed by possible extractive activities. These additions were ...

Ibiza provides an excellent example of the interaction between the marine and coastal ecosystems. The dense prairies of oceanic Posidonia (seagrass), an important endemic species found only in the Mediterranean basin, contain and support a diversity of marine life. Ibiza preserves considerable evidence of its long history. The archaeological sites at Sa Caleta (settlement) ...

Kutná Hora developed as a result of the exploitation of the silver mines. In the 14th century it became a royal city endowed with monuments that symbolized its prosperity. The Church of St Barbara, a jewel of the late Gothic period, and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, which was restored in line with the Baroque taste of the early 18th century, were to influence the ...

Paper is a material which remains inextricably linked to the human civilization. Despite being gradually superseded by other information carriers, it is still considered to be the basic medium which allows the preservation and transmission of the memory of various events, literary works, administrative decisions as well as myriad forms of mass communication. It is assumed ...

Jews began to settle in Sarajevo in the early 16th century, at a time when the city was beginning to experience a rapid development (Zlatar, p. 57). The earliest documentary source referring to their presence is a document in the sijill of the Sarajevo court dating from 1557.  Another surviving Sarajevo sijill dating from the 16th century,  more precisely from 1565, refers ...

Nasca Aqueducts are located in the province of Nasca, department of Ica, in the basin of Rio Grande, characterized by being a hydrographic system that only starts based on the rainfall that occurs in the mountains of the upper part of the basin, in the foothills of the central Andes, which give rise to intermittent water courses, which usually last only between three and ...

Historic town of Kemaliye (or Eğin) is located in the northwest of the Eastern Anatolian Region, and to the southwest of the Erzincan province which lies in the Upper Euphrates. The east, west, north and south of the Kemaliye settlement are surrounded by mountains. The Karasu tributary of the Euphrates, which is the longest river of the Southwest Asia, flows through the ...

The earliest reference to Podblagaj dates from 1447.  The settlement was located at the foot of the Blagaj fort, where the road runs down from the fort and intersects with the Nevesinje road. There was too little trade for a commercial centre to emerge. In an agricultural environment of this kind the circumstances were not such as to give rise to an urban settlement, let ...

Plasencia : N40 01 52 W6 05 20 Parc National de Monfraguë : N39 47 58 W05 57 59 Trujillo : N39 27 42 W5 52 48 Le contenu des biens insérés dans la déclaration proposée (Plasencia-Monfragüe-Trujillo: Paysage méditerranéen) est de nature patrimoniale distincte, culturelle et naturelle, en accord avec les définitions rédigées dans les articles 1 et 2 ...

Le Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida a été expliqué comme un paysage de la mémoire, un jalon monumental et un patrimoine situé dans un vide urbain. Le complexe, au coeur de la ville de Lleida, sur un promontoire qui centre géographiquement une grande plaine alluviale, présente trois éléments architecturaux qui composent le patrimoine le plus significatif et symbolique des ...

Stolac is located in the area known as Herzegovina Humina, on the tourist route crossing Herzegovina linking the mountainous hinterland in Bosnia with the coastal regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dubrovnik and Montenegro.  This road, which runs from Sarajevo via Mostar, Stolac, Ljubinje and Trebinje, enables one to reach Dubrovnik in less than four hours.  Another route ...

The City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg bear witness to an exemplary model of the living heritage of a central European urban complex influenced by the secular presence of the Habsburgs and the cultural and artistic role played by the main aristocratic families. They are a harmonious blend of the architectural styles and artistic movements that have ...

The Kornati archipelago is an isolated island group situated in the central region of the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. The Kornati archipelago occupies an area of about 320 sq km and includes about 150 islands, islets and rocks. This most indented island group in the Adriatic Sea includes as many as 12% of the total number of islands found in the Croatian part of the ...