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Located at Aveiro’s District, Municipality of Mealhada, Civil Parish of Luso, at 40° 33’ N and 8° 28’ (O) “W”at the “northwestern” extreme of Bussaco’s mountain range, the “Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco” develops between 250 and 560 meters and exposes up mainly towards north. The enclosed surface has an area of about ...

The twenty-first session of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 23 to 28 June 1997. The seven Bureau members, Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco and Niger, were joined by observer delegations from thirty-seven other States Parties, as well as representatives of the Advisory Bodies.The agenda included an ...

The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatán, was founded c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000 inhabitants. The layout of the buildings, which date from between 700 and 1000, reveals a knowledge of astronomy. The Pyramid of the Soothsayer, as the Spaniards called it, dominates the ceremonial centre, which has well-designed buildings decorated with a profusion of symbolic motifs and ...

The pre-Hispanic rock art of the Dominican Republic is located in caves, shelters and open-air rocks scattered throughout the national geography. We have found rock sites both in the coastal plain, and in the great valleys and mountains. A very important part of the caverns scattered around the Dominican geography, around 20%, contains manifestations of rock art. During ...

National Reserve of Lachay -11.374125 E y -77.361712 N          Reserved Zone of Lomas de Ancón -11.681363 E y -77.100667 N Private Conservation Area of Atiquipa -15.741670 E y -74.380691 N     The Coastal Lomas System of Peru, is distributed along the Peruvian coast, from Tacna to La Libertad, which is approximately 51 hills (lomas formations), this time has ...

Marrakesh - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting since November 29 in Marrakesh (Morocco), has inscribed 48 new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List. The List now has 630 sites of "exceptional universal value" in 118 countries. Sites in South Africa, Nigeria, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Turkmenistan are on the List for the first time. Notable among ...

Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta is located on the traditional lands of the Ngadjuri and Narungga peoples, respectively, who occupied these lands for thousands of years prior to European settlement and dispossession from the nineteenth century. Burra and Moonta figure in their oral traditions and in European contemporary written records and illustrations, ...

Latitude and Longitude, or UTM coordinates: 1 Residencias El Parque, 1965-1970 / 4°36'48.099"N   74°4'2.103"W. 2 Casa de Huéspedes de Colombia / 10° 23' 36.925"N 75° 32' 10.694"W. 3 Archivo General de la Nación, 1988-1994 / 4°35'38.7" N 74°04'35.8"W . 4 Casa Gabriel García Márquez, 1991-1996 / 10°25'42.9"N 75°32'54.0"W. 5 Edificio de Posgrados de Ciencias Humanas – ...

Our Pledge, Bergen, Norway Cultural and natural sites form the environment on which human beings are dependent psychologically, religiously, educationally and economically. Their destruction or even deterioration could be harmful to the survival of our identity, our nations and our planet. We have the responsibility to preserve these sites for future generations. Our ...

Sites on the World Heritage List are cultural, natural or mixed properties recognized by the World Heritage Committee has being of outstanding universal value. Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems which are internationally recognized within the framework of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme. State Party World Heritage ...

The Sado complex of heritage mines, primarily gold mines (hereinafter referred to as “the Sado Mines”), is located on the island of Sado in the sea between the Japanese archipelago and the Eurasian continent. Over the course of more than four hundred years, gold and silver mining techniques and methods were constantly being introduced here from both home and ...

Municipality of Páez-Belalcázar N2 38 42.95 W75 58 19.86 Municipality of Inzá N2 32 59.74 W76 3 54.54 This group of seven temples is situated in a particular area between volcanoes, rivers and spectacular views of all which provide for the existence of thermal floors varying from warm to paramo generating a broad diversity of flora and fauna as well as ...

Jebel Mara is located in Darfur region, the western part of Sudan between latitudes 12° 25' and 13° N and longitudes 24° 10' and 24° 12' E, extending along 135 km in the north-south direction with a maximum width of about 80 km in the southern third of the mountain. Total area is estimated to be about 2000 km². It lies within a plain of semi-desert with desert to the ...

Dept Province District Winery UTM COORDINATES(DATUM WGS84) South East Lima CAÑETE LUNAHUANA LA REINA 8571643.10 380084.80 Lima CAÑETE LUNAHUANA HIJOS DEL SOL 8564580.50 374443.90 Lima CAÑETE LUNAHUANA RIVADENEYRA 8570272.70 379155.50 Ica ICA SALAS LA CARAVEDO 8454182.50 419582.30 Ica ICA PARCONA VISTA ...

The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route inland, reached its apogee in the 18th century when many of its outstanding religious and civic buildings were built in the style of the Mexican Baroque. Some of these buildings are masterpieces of the style that evolved in the transition from Baroque to neoclassical. Situated 14 km from ...

Cotubanamá National Park (also known as East National Park) is part of the National System of Protected Areas of the Dominican Republic; it is located in the furthest limit of the Southeast of the country, between the provinces of La Romana and La Altagracia. Its territorial scope constitutes a peninsula with a trapezoidal shape, the major base would be represented by an ...

Costa Rica, Governance Interpretative and visitation facilities (provide visitor interpretation and future accessibility to components not yet open to the public) Human resources (guardians and managers) Housing (future urban development) Water infrastructure (discussion on the construction of a hydropower dam) Air transport infrastructure Financial resources Management ...

The 'Pearl of the Adriatic', situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Although severely damaged by an earthquake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990s by armed conflict, it is now the ...

Badain Jaran Desert is located in the Alashan Plateau in the hyper-arid and temperate desert region of northwestern China. It is China’s second largest desert. The nominated property of Badain Jaran Desert—Towers of Sand and Lakes concentrates in the central desert area, including unique desert aeolian features of the most concentrated distribution area of mega-dunes and ...

-Cup of Vento or Albear: N23 01 40, W82 23 54-Palatino Deposits: N23 06 01, W82 22 56The Aqueduct of Albear was a project designed by military engineer Francisco Albear y de Lara, who was also in charge of the construction in the second half of the 19th century. The project was approved on November 17, 1857 and the first stone was laid on June 26, 1861. When Albear passed ...

United States of America,a) Quantity and quality of water entering the property; b) Urban encroachment; c) Agricultural fertiliser pollution; d) Mercury contamination of fish and wildlife; e) Lowered water levels due to flood control measures; f) Damage from hurricanes. ,On 5 March 2010 a report was submitted by the State Party on the state of conservation of the ...