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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 ...

Sur une presqu'ile de la cote dalmate, la « perle de l'Adriatique » est devenue une importante puissance maritime mediterraneenne a partir du XIIIe siecle. Bien que severement endommagee par un tremblement de terre en 1667, Dubrovnik a pu preserver ses beaux monuments, eglises, monasteres, palais et fontaines de style gothique, Renaissance et baroque. De nouveau endommagee ...

Hall in Tyrol is a town with some 13.000 habitants ten kilometres east of Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol. Three important cornerstones contributed to the wealth of the city: salt production, trading point for navigation on the Inn-river and the Sovereign's Mint. The historic centre, which remained to an extraordinary high extent intact, represents an example of medieval ...

St. Nicholas Abbey: 13º16' N - 59º35' W Morgan Lewis: 13º15' N - 59º34' W Codrington College: 13º10‘15” N - 59º28‘30“E Newton Burial Gr. : 13º04‘15'' N - 59º32’10“E:   Mount Gay Distilleries, St.Lucy;  13º17‘28” N - 59º36‘44“W Favoured with a flat terrain, a geographical position to windward of all other islands which was easily defended, good soils and rainfall, and a ...

It is proposed that the extension to the Fraser Island World Heritage Area will include the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy National Park, the Breaksea Spit to the north of Fraser Island, Platypus Bay, the Great Sandy Strait/Tin Can Bay Ramsar Area and the Wide Bay Military Reserve. The nominated area falls between latitudes 24º33'S and 26º 39'S, and ...

Name of Site Coordinates Historical Sanctuary Bosque de Pomac S6 28 25 W79 46 35 Tucume S6 30 35 W79 51 35 The Historical Sanctuary Bosque de Pomac (HSBP) and the Tucume archaeological site, which contain as a group the mixed property “Ceremonial Centers and Forests in the La Leche Valley”, both are two patrimonial areas which have archaeological and nature outlined ...

No. Name of the component District Coordinates (Central Point) Area of the property component (Ha) RDN* No. 01 Kuelap Tingo 840435 E, 9289833 N 136.88 196 02 Ollape La Jalca 187547 E, 9282272 N 5 196 03 Yalape Levanto 180231 E, 9303207 N 45.6 196 04 Macro Magdalena 177232 E, 9295451 ...

The University of Havana is the oldest higher education institution in the country, founded in January 1728. The Dominican fathers have the merit of promoting the approval of the first Cuban higher education center (third in the Caribbean region and sixteenth in Latin America), which name would be Real and Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo (Royal and Pontifical ...

The Yerba Mate Cultural Landscape (PCYM) is a landscape that through its four zones rescues the productive systems and cultural processes associated with the production of yerba mate. Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) is a product of cross-cutting consumption in the culture and economy of Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. It is also consumed in the Latin American ...

Mexique,a) Pression due à l'urbanisation ; b) Catastrophes naturelles (instabilité sismique et affaissement progressif de la ville causé par l'abaissement de l'aquifère) ; c) Pollution de l'eau et de l'environnement. ,Le 1er février 2007, le Centre du patrimoine mondial a reçu le rapport sur l'état de conservation du ...

It is a serial property which comprises 5 component parts, several of which already have been inscribed on the World Heritage list: 1) Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo (already a World Heritage site): N9 00 23.92 W79 29 07.02 at Panamá Viejo´s Tower; 2) Historic District of Panamá (already a World Heritage site): N8 57 09.39 W79 32 06.17 at the steps of the Metropolitan ...

Dept Province District Temple Latitude (Degrees, Min, Sec) Longitude (Degrees, Min, Sec) Puno MELGAR AYAVIRI SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS S14 52 51.8 W70 35 23.0 Puno AZANGARO ASILLO SAN GERONIMO S14 47 12.5 W70 21 17.2 Puno LAMPA LAMPA SANTIAGO APOSTOL S15 21 53.7 W70 22 01.0 Puno PUNO PUNO SAN CARLOS (MINOR BASILICA CATHEDRAL) S15 50 27.2 W70 01 ...

Le paysage des Cornouailles et de l’ouest du Devon s’est en grande partie transforme au XVIIIe et au debut du XIXe siecle dans le sillage de l’essor rapide de l’exploitation miniere du cuivre et de l’etain. Les profondes mines souterraines, les batiments des machines, les fonderies, les villes nouvelles, les petites proprietes, les ports et leurs industries associees ...

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 ...

The city of Gaziantep is located on the edge of the Alleben Stream and the settlement history of the city dates to end of the 5th century. The stream flows by winding the settlement area in C shape. However, Alleben Stream is low in water and the water level is further reduced by increasing summer temperature. The Gaziantep Plateau also has a small number of streams. ...

Les riches vestiges archeologiques de la cite iranienne de Bam, ou 26 000 personnes ont perdu la vie lors du tremblement de terre du 26 decembre 2003, ont ete inscrits aujourd’hui sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO. Douze autres sites ont ete inscrits ce 2 juillet par le Comite du patrimoine mondial, reuni a Suzhou pour sa 28e session. La Liste du patrimoine ...

Divnogorye is a unique cultural landscape, which results from the continuous interaction of man and nature from the Late Paleolithic to the present day, located in Voronezh Oblast in the center of the European part of Russia. Its natural and cultural features have shaped the distinctive and special appearance of Divnogorye with chalk cliffs and divas, traces of ...

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, in Portuguese) has its origins in the Federal Serum Therapy Institute (Instituto Soroterápico Federal, in Portuguese), founded in 1900, on Manguinhos Municipal Farmlands, in the then federal capital of the country (Rio de Janeiro), to manufacture serums and vaccines against the bubonic plague that had arrived in ...

Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo: N: 995933,051; E: 666505,166Historic Centre of Panamá City Within Casco Antiguo: N: 989913,756; E: 661089,998 Panama City is directly associated with important interchanges of human values throughout its history due to its strategic position on the Central American Isthmus. As a terminal city and link of important communication routes, ...