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WHC.18/42.COM/
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Preparations are being completed in Chile, where almost everything is ready, for the final meeting of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise for Latin America and the Caribbean that will take place in Santiago de Chile from 2 to 5 December 2012.
The primary objectives of this meeting will be the development of the 2013-2020 Regional Action Plan and also ...
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Spreading over almost 600 hectares, Chapultepec Woods constitutes one of the most important natural reserves in Mexico City. It has a certain variety of animal and tree species, including willow, eucalyptus, and ahuehuete, a Mexican coniferous tree. There are also various geological formations, from sand deposits to caves and holes located in the Hill itself The woods ...
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Mexico,a) Pressure from Urban Development;
b) Natural disasters (seismic instability and continued sinking of the city caused by the depletion of the aquifer);
c) Water and environmental pollution. ,On 1 February 2007, the World Heritage Centre received the state of conservation report on the property of Xochimilco through the Permanent Delegation of Mexico to ...
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CLT-82/CONF.015/INF.4
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Mexico,,The Bureau requested the Mexican authorities to respond by 15 September 1997, to the recommendation of an expert mission. At the time of the preparation of this document, no report had been received.
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Mexico,
Tourism development
Land use
,New information will be reported orally during the meeting following the submission of the State Party report due on 15 May 2002.
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The World Heritage Committee at its twenty-third session held in Marrakesh (Morocco) from 29 November to 4 December 1999, adopted the conclusions and recommendations of the mission of international experts sent to the Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino (Mexico). The Committee endorsed the main findings of the mission's report which "concluded that the World Heritage site under ...
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Mexico,
Industrial salt production facility;
One mile-long pier construction
,At its nineteenth session, the Bureau discussed a report about a project for industrial salt production at the site and its potential threats to the whale population. A letter, noting the concerns of the Bureau about this project, was addressed to the Mexican authorities, but no response was ...
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Mexico,,The ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission, carried out from 23 to 29 November 2002, had as objective to review existing legal provisions, administrative aspects of site management and recent studies and actions undertaken. For the natural and urban areas of Xochimilco, the following important studies and actions have been undertaken for the conservation and management ...
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25th session of the World Heritage Committee Helsinki, Finland 25COM 11 December - 16 December 2001
Committee Members
Argentina, Belgium, China, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ...
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23rd session of the World Heritage Committee Marrakesh, Morocco 23COM 29 November - 04 December 1999
Committee Members
Australia, Belgium, Benin, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Thailand, Zimbabwe
Bureau Members
Chairperson:
...
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Mexico,
Impacts of tourism/visitor/recreation (tourism activities, off-road vehicles as well as potential problems derived from tourism-related water consumption)
Invasive/alien terrestrial species
Ground transport infrastructure (proposed roads)
Necessity to save the Sonoran Pronghorn from possible extinction
Environmental concerns in security efforts along the ...
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The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is receiving petitions expressing concern about the state of conservation of the World Heritage property Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Mexico), inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2008.
The World Heritage Committee, at its next session (Bonn, Germany, 28 June - 8 July 2015), will examine the state of conservation of the property. ...
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Two international experts’ meetings were held in Campeche (Mexico) on 12-15 March 2004, and subsequently in Valdivia (Chile) on 19-21 January 2005, on the subject of Fortifications in the Americas and the World Heritage Convention. Fortifications are one of the most significant cultural heritages that best summarizes and exemplifies the intercontinental history of the ...
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Mexico,Urban Pressure; Tourism Pressure; Agriculture Pressure; Lack of management mechanism (including legislation); Lack of monitoring system; Lack of human or financial resources; Lack of institution coordination; Civil unrest. ,On 2 February 2004 the Secretariat received a progress report on the “Project for the Participatory Identification of an Integral ...
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Another earthquake struck the region of Oaxaca, Mexico on Saturday 23 September, further devastating a region where more than 400 people have been killed by two other powerful earthquakes this month.
The Mexican authorities are carrying out coordinated actions at the federal, state and municipal levels and with the inhabitants of the affected regions to prepare a ...
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The conquest of northwest Mexico had distinctive characteristics because the limits of the area known as Mesoamerica and the beginning of Aridoamerica met there. This lead to the establishment during colonial times of four types of settlements strongly interlinked: prisons, towns where the Spaniards lived, mining towns and Jesuit missions, the last provided mining towns ...
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Mexico,
Industrial salt production facility;
One mile-long pier construction
,The Bureau recalled that during 1996-97, the State Party, by establishing a Scientific Committee which set up stringent environmental conditions on the proponents of an industrial salt production facility, successfully averted threats which the construction of that facility could have posed to ...
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Mexico,Earthquake in 1999,In May 2000, a general report on work on the Convents of San Francisco, in Tochimilco, and San Agustín, in Puebla, was submitted by the State Party. It was followed by a report in July 2000 on the advances of consolidation and restoration work done in the whole region affected by the earthquakes in 1999, detailing that 93 % of the work was ...
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Built between 400 and 900 A.D., this ceremonial centre was fortified by means of slate (volcanic tuff) masonry walls. Remains of buildings of various sizes crown 50 large terraces. There are five levels in this site. The Hall of Columns, which measures 41 by 30 meters, is in the first level, which is also the one that has been explored more extensively. The Ball Court ...
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Mexico,
Illegal logging
Growth in human population
Tourism pressures associated with growth in visitor numbers and heavy concentration in specific areas
Agricultural advances
Forest fires
,On 5 February 2014, the World Heritage Centre wrote to the State Party of Mexico requesting further information in relation to media reports that the 2013-2014 overwintering population ...
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Mexico,a) Demolition of historical buildings in the protected area of the Historical Centre;
b) Urgent implementation of the management plan in Xochimilco.,The World Heritage Committee examined the situation derived from the demolition of 14 historical buildings in the property during its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008). A joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive ...
389.
36th session of the World Heritage Committee Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation 36COM 24 June - 06 July 2012
Committee Members
Algeria, Cambodia, Colombia, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Iraq, Japan, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Qatar, Russian Federation, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates
Bureau Members
...
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The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Baku since 30 June, has decided to inscribe the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico) on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to concerns about the imminent extinction of the vaquita, an endemic porpoise in the Gulf of California.
Mexico has made efforts to protect these threatened species, notably by ...
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The Silk Road: the longest trade route in human history
Central Sikhote-Alin: a natural site in the Russian Federation and a refuge for many endangered species
The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga: an important centre of worship and pilgrimage in Madagascar
The White City of Tel-Aviv: a true museum of the Bauhaus architectural movement
The five mid-eighteenth century Franciscan ...
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26th session of the World Heritage Committee Budapest, Hungary 26COM 24 June - 29 June 2002
Committee Members
Argentina, Belgium, China, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ...
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Mexico,
Demolition of historical buildings in the protected area of the Historical Centre;
Urgent implementation of the management plan in Xochimilco;
Infrastructure works (new subway line).
,In response to the requests made by the World Heritage Committee at its 35th session (Decision 35 COM 7B.127), the State Party has submitted a state of conservation report that ...
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UNESCO Headquarter, Paris,The General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage will hold its 19th session on 19 to 21 November 2013 at UNESCO Headquarters.
The General Assembly will be called upon to replace the outgoing members of the World Heritage Committee. The seats of the following States ...
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Budapest, Hungary - 24 June 2002. The World Heritage Committee opened its 26th annual session in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, 24 June. The opening session was attended by 320 participants representing all 21 Committee members, over 50 observers from States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, representatives from the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee ...
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Mexico,
Urban pressure;
Lack of monitoring system;
Earthquake in 1999
,Since 2002 the Secretariat has been receiving information from the civil society of Puebla expressing public concern regarding the construction of underground parking facilities as elaborated by the Mayor of the city over the past one and a half year. Disregarding the ICOMOS recommendations of the May ...
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The first preparatory meeting for the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting exercise for World Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the Mexico and Central America sub region was held from 6 to 8 September 2010 at the Antiguo Convento Franciscano de Propaganda FIDE, currently the Guadalupe Museum in Zacatecas (Mexico). The meeting coincided with the ...
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Viet Nam,
New port is to be developed in the Bay
License for a large floating hotel at the site
,The Committee, at its nineteenth session noted the potential threats to the integrity of this site, due to the proposed development of a new port, and the proposal to issue a license for the establishment of a large floating hotel at the site. Furthermore, the Committee learnt ...
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,In the framework of Document WHC-12/36.COM/10C and Decision 36 COM 10C adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session (Saint Petersburg, 2012), the final meeting of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise for Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Santiago de Chile, Chile from 3-5 December 2012.
As the final meeting for the Region, it ...
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Mexico,,The Bureau took note of the oral report presented by the IUCN Representative on the site, indicating that the Mitsubishi Corporation in partnership with the Mexican Government has a project to convert a part of the lagoon into salt ponds for industrial salt production. A one-mile-long pier is proposed, which would disturb the grey whales within the lagoon. No ...
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Mexico,
Urban development project including the demolition of a great number of colonial constructions
Earthquake in 1999
,In May 2000, a general report on work on the Convents of San Francisco, in Tochimilco, and San Agustín, in Puebla, was submitted by the State Party. It was followed by a report in July 2000 on the advances of consolidation and restoration work ...
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Merida, Mexico,During the 20th Section of the World Heritage the exhibition Africa Revisited took place. It was designed and produced by Galia Saouma-Forero.
The exhibition “Africa Revisited” was produced from information drawn from the first Global Strategy meeting in Harare in 1995 and the preparation of the meeting of Addis Ababa.
The exhibition highlighted ...
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Promoting local businesses in Mexican World Heritage Cities
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In the framework of Document WHC-12/36.COM/10C and Decision 36 COM 10C adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session (Saint Petersburg, 2012), the final meeting of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise for Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Santiago de Chile, Chile from 3-5 December 2012.
As the final meeting for the Region, it ...
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Mechtild Rossler, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, welcomes the initiative by the Government of Mexico to create a vast ocean reserve spanning 150,000 sq km around the Revillagigedo islands, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016.
The establishment of the reserve follows the request of the World Heritage Committee when inscribing the Archipielago ...
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Mexico,
Statement on the selection of the component sites;
Need to expand the buffer zone;
Need to put in place legal protection for all the individual sites;
Need to establish an overall coordinated management system that encompasses all the sites.
,In response to the requests made by the World Heritage Committee at its 35th session (Decision 35 COM 7B.128), ...
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Thousands of museums are located in and around World Heritage sites. Site museums preserve the integrity of the sites through conservation efforts, but also enhance interpretation and visitor education. Experts, tourists and local communities all have a role in these activities. Museums can also help bolster the local and regional economy, and provide platforms for debate ...
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Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the Royal Inland Road, also known as the Silver Route. The inscribed property consists of 55 sites and five existing World Heritage sites lying along a 1400 km section of this 2600 km route, that extends north from Mexico City to Texas and New Mexico, United States of America. The route was actively used as a trade route for 300 years, ...
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The World Heritage Centre received a letter today from the Government of Mexico’s National Commission for Natural Protected Areas formally advising it that the government had withdrawn all approvals for the development of a very large tourism development application located near Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park (CPNP). CPNP is a component of the large Islands and ...
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17th session of the World Heritage Committee Cartagena, Colombia 17COM 06 December - 11 December 1993
Committee Members
Brazil, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Niger, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, United States of America
Bureau Members
...
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16th session of the World Heritage Committee Santa Fe, USA 16COM 07 December - 14 December 1992
Committee Members
Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, United States of America
Bureau Members
...
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The US$3,5 million aims to link the conservation of biodiversity with sustainable tourism at six World Heritage sites: El Vizcaino (Mexico), Komodo (Indonesia), Rio Plátano (Honduras), Sian Ka'an (Mexico), Tikal (Guatemala), and Ujung Kulon (Indonesia). It focuses on creating a model for using tourism to promote the protection of important habitats by working with local ...
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Mexico,
Industrial salt production facility;
One mile-long pier construction
,At its twenty-first ordinary session in June 1997, the Bureau noted with appreciation the State Party's efforts to ensure a rigorous evaluation of the environmental impacts of the proposed industrial salt production facility at this site. The Scientific Committee, set up by the Mexican Government ...
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Second letter from the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee to the Environmental Groups concerning the Whale Sanctuary of El Viscaino
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Oaxaca, Mexico.― On 17-18 June, 2024, UNESCO organized the first workshop for the project ‘Latin America and the Caribbean: Strengthening Capacities for Resilient Communities through Sustainable Tourism and Heritage Safeguarding’, an initiative supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The workshop brought together site managers from Belize, Costa ...
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Mexico,a) Demolition of historical buildings in the protected area of the Historical Centre;
b) Urgent implementation of the management plan in Xochimilco;
c) Infrastructure works (new subway line).,The state of conservation report was received by the World Heritage Centre in two portions on 31 January and 1 February 2011. One part is for the Historic Centre of Mexico ...
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Aranjuez, the only Spanish site declared a Cultural Landscape in UNESCO´s World Heritage List, is hosting the 2nd World Heritage Ibero-American Youth Forum from 20 to June 30, 2010. The event comes in the wake of the 1st Ibero-American Youth Forum on World Heritage, held in Seville in June 2009, during the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee.
This event ...
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San-Jose, Costa Rica,This training seminar, organized by the World Heritage Centre, in close collaboration with the San Jose UNESCO Office, the Advisory Bodies (ICOMOS, IUCN, ICCROM) and with the financial support of the Italian Funds-in-Trust, is framed within the follow-up activities to the Periodic Report on The State of the World Heritage in Latin America and the ...
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands,These conclusions and recommendations were agreed upon by the participants at the conference Linking Universal and Local Values: Managing a Sustainable Future for World Heritage (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-24 May 2003). The conference was attended by representatives from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Colombia, ...
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13th session of the World Heritage Committee UNESCO, Paris 13COM 11 December - 15 December 1989
Committee Members
Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Yemen
Bureau Members
...
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Five sites newly inscribed into UNESCO's World Heritage List are highlighted in the July-August issue of the UNESCO Courier.Bisotun (Islamic Republic of Iran) Professor David Stronach, archeologist and former Director of the British Institute of Persian Studies in Tehran (1961-1980), looks back fondly on his experiences at Bisotun (Islamic Republic of Iran), a monument ...
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Mexico,
Illegal activities - Illegal logging
Land conversion - Agricultural encroachment
Forest fires (issue resolved)
Decline in the overwintering population of Monarch butterflies in the property
Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation (tourism pressures associated with growth in visitor numbers and heavy concentration in specific areas)
Major visitor accommodation ...
428.
The Tides of Time programme, initiated in 2008 through a partnership with Jaeger-LeCoultre and the International Herald Tribune, has entered its second year.
The year began with coverage of sites such as Sian Kaan in Mexico and the Everglades in the USA. Other sites including the Atoll of Aldabra (Seychelles), Sundarbans (Bangladesh/India), Shiretoko (Japan), and the ...
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18th session of the World Heritage Committee Phuket, Thailand 18COM 12 December - 17 December 1994
Committee Members
Brazil, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Niger, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, United States of America
Bureau Members
...
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12th session of the World Heritage Committee Brasilia, Brazil 12COM 05 December - 09 December 1988
Committee Members
Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, France, Greece, India, Italy, Lebanon, Malawi, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Türkiye, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Yemen
Bureau Members
...
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This National Wildlife Refuge consists of more than 162,000 hectares (about 400,000 acres) embracing 92% of the Okefenokee Swamp, a large hydrologically intact swamp that is the source of two rivers, one that flows into the Atlantic and the other into the Gulf of Mexico. The Refuge also has extensive and essentially undisturbed peat deposits.
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After a successful first workshop held on 29 September, the second of a series of training workshops for Jet tours guides is to be held at UNESCO Headquarters on 27 October 2005.
Organized in the context of the recently signed agreement between Laurence Berman-Clement, Director-General of Jet tours and Francesco Bandarin, Director of the World Heritage Centre, the ...
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Twelve new members were elected to the World Heritage Committee during the 17th General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France from 23 to 28 October. The new members of the Committee are Cambodia, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Iraq, Mali, Mexico, Russian Federation, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand and ...
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Mexico,
Industrial salt production facility;
One mile-long pier construction
,Previous deliberations:
Twenty-second session of the Committee – page 97 of Annex IV.
Twenty-third ordinary session of the Bureau – Chapter IV. 35
New information: Following the request of the World Heritage Committee and its Bureau and at the invitation of the Mexican authorities, a ...
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Mexico,,Previous deliberations:
Twenty-third session of the Bureau, Chapter IV.68
New information: In response to a request from the Bureau at its twenty-third session, the Mexican authorities submitted a detailed inventory of damages caused to the Historic Centre of Puebla and the Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatepetl by the earthquake of ...
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Mexico,Urban pression,The Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve (SKBR) is located just 50 km South of the world-renowned tourist destination of Cancun. Development pressures on this coastline are tremendous. Recently, a 4 lane divided highway was completed from Cancun to Tulum, at the edge of the SKBR. Over 2 million tourists visit the area just North of the ...
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From 5 to 7 November 2019, a total of 27 participants—including Focal Points, Vice-Ministers, and academics—from 14 countries of the sub-regions of Mexico and Central America and the Caribbean gathered in Havana, Cuba, to analyze and discuss the relevance of their current Tentative Lists.
One of the central objectives of the three-day workshop was to strengthen the ...