The following standard format information sheets
on all sites inscribed on the World Heritage List for natural
or mixed natural and cultural reasons are presented here. These
information sheets are compiled and maintained by UNEP-WCMC
on behalf of UNESCO. The full list of World Heritage properties
(Cultural, natural and mixed) is maintained by UNESCO.
Sites are inscribed onto the World Heritage List following the
World Heritage Committee Meeting (convened annually June-July).
The List is current as of 13 July 2005 and will be updated following
the next meeting of the Committee in July 2006.
ALGERIA:
1982 Tassili
N'Ajjer
ARGENTINA:
1981 Los
Glaciares
1984 Iguazu
National Park
1999 Península
Valdés
2000 Ischigualasto-Talampaya
AUSTRALIA:
1981 Great
Barrier Reef
1981 Kakadu
National Park
1981 Willandra
Lakes Region
1982 Tasmanian
Wilderness
1982 Lord
Howe Island Group
1987 Uluru-Kata
Tjuta National Park
1987 Central
Eastern Australian Rainforest
1988 Wet
Tropics of Queensland
1991 Shark
Bay, Western Australia
1992 Fraser
Island
1994 Australian
Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte)
1997 Heard and
McDonald Islands
1997 Macquarie
Island
2000 Blue
Mountains National Park
2003 Purnululu
National Park
BANGLADESH:
1997 The
Sundarbans
BELARUS/POLAND:
1992 Beloveshskaya
Pushcha / Bialowieza
Forest
BELIZE:
1996 Belize
Barrier-Reef Reserve System
BOLIVIA:
2000 Noel
Kempff Mercado National Park
BRAZIL:
1984 Iguacu National
Park
1999 Discovery Coast
Atlantic Forest Reserves
1999 Southeast Atlantic
Forest Reserves
2000 Jaú National
Park
2000 Pantanal Conservation
Complex
2001 Brazilian Atlantic
Islands
2001 Cerrado Protected
Areas
2003 Central Amazon Conservation
BULGARIA:
1983 Srebarna Nature
Reserve
1983 Pirin National Park
CAMEROON:
1987 Dja Faunal Reserve
CANADA:
1978 Nahanni National
Park
1979 Dinosaur Provincial
Park
1983 Wood Buffalo
National Park
1984 Canadian Rocky
Mountain Parks*
1987 Gros Morne National
Park
1999 Miguasha Park
*The Burgess Shale Site, previously inscribed on the WHL,
is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA:
1979 Tatshenshini-Alsek/
Kluane National Park/
Wrangell-St. Elias
National Park and Reserve and Glacier
Bay National Park
1995 Waterton Glacier
International Peace Park
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC:
1988 Parc National
du Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
CHINA:
1987 Mount Taishan
1990 Mount Huangshan
1992 Jiuzhaigou Valley
Scenic and Historic Interest Area
1992 Huanglong Scenic
and Historic Interest Area
1992 Wulingyuan Scenic
and Historic Interest Area
1996 Mt. Emei and Leshan
Giant Buddha
1999 Mount Wuyi
2003 Three Parallel
Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
2006 The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
COLOMBIA:
1994 Los Katios National
Park
2006 Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary (Santuario de Fauna y Flora Malpelo)
COSTA RICA:
1997 Cocos Island National
Park
1999 Area de Conservación
Guanacaste
COSTA RICA/PANAMA:
1983 Talamanca Range-La
Amistad Reserves / La
Amistad National Park
COTE D'IVOIRE:
1982 Taï National
Park
1983 Comoé National
Park
CROATIA:
1979 Plitvice Lakes
National Park
CUBA:
1999 Desembarco del
Granma National Park
2001 Alejandro de
Humboldt National Park
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO:
1979 Virunga National
Park
1981 Kahuzi-Biega
National Park
1980 Garamba National
Park
1984 Salonga National
Park
1996 Okapi Faunal Reserve
DENMARK:
2004 Ilulissat
Icefjord
DOMINICA:
1997 Morne Trois Pitons
National Park
ECUADOR:
1978 Galapagos National
Park
1983 Sangay National
Park
EGYPT:
2005 Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale
Valley)
ETHIOPIA:
1978 Simien National
Park
FRANCE:
1983 Cape Girolata,
Cape Porto, Scandola Natural Reserve, and the Piano Calanches
in Corsica
FRANCE/SPAIN:
1997 Pyrénées - Mount
Perdu
GERMANY:
1995 Messel Pit Fossil
site
GREECE:
1988 Meteora
GUATEMALA:
1979 Tikal National
Park
GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE:
1981 Mount Nimba Strict
Nature Reserve
HONDURAS:
1982 Río Platano
Biosphere Reserve
HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA:
1995 Caves
of Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
INDIA:
1985 Kaziranga National
Park
1985 Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
1985 Keoladeo National
Park
1987 Sundarbans National
Park
1988/2005 Nanda Devi
and Valley of Flowers National Parks *
* (Extension of Nanda Devi Site to include Valley of the
Flowers National Park (as of July 2005), and a resulting name
change of the entire site to Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
National Parks)
INDONESIA:
1991 Komodo National
Park
1991 Ujung Kulon National
Park
1999 Lorentz National
Park
2004 Tropical
Rainforest of Sumatra
ITALY:
2000 Aeolian Islands
(Isole Eolie)
JAPAN:
1993 Yakushima
1993 Shirakami-Sanchi
2005 Shiretoko
KENYA:
1997 Mount Kenya
National Park / Natural Forest
1997 Lake Turkana
National Parks*
* (Sibiloi/Central Island National Parks previously inscribed
on the World Heritage List, as well as an extension to include
South Island National Park, are part of this site).
MADAGASCAR:
1990 Tsingy Bemaraha
Strict Nature Reserve
MALAWI:
1984 Lake Malawi
National Park
MALAYSIA:
2000 Gunung Mulu
National Park
2000 Kinabalu Park
MALI:
1989 Cliffs of Bandiagara
(Land of the Dogons)
MAURITANIA:
1989 Banc D'Arguin
National Park
MEXICO:
1987 Sian Ka'an
1993 Whale Sanctuary
of El Vizcaino
2005 Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
MONGOLIA:
2003 Uvs Nuur Basin
NEPAL:
1979 Sagarmatha
National Park, including Mt. Everest
1984 Royal Chitwan
National Park
NEW ZEALAND:
1990 Te Wahipounamu
- South West New Zealand (Westland/Mount Cook National
Park and Fiordland National Park, previously inscribed on
the World Heritage List, are part of this site)
1990 Tongariro National
Park
1998 Sub-Antarctic
Islands
NIGER:
1991 Air and Ténéré
Natural Reserves
1996 "W" National
Park
NORWAY:
2005 West Norwegian Fjords
Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
OMAN:
1994 Arabian Oryx
Sanctuary
PANAMA:
1981 Darien National
Park
2005 Coiba National Park
and its Special Zone of Marine Protection
PERU:
1983 Historic Sanctuary
of Machu Picchu
1985 Huascarán
National Park
1987 Manu National Park
1990 Rio Abiseo National
Park
PHILIPPINES:
1993 Tubbataha Reef
Marine Park
1999 Puerto-Princesa
Subterranean River National Park
PORTUGAL:
1993 Laurisilva of
Madeira
ROMANIA:
1991 Danube Delta
RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
1995 Virgin Komi Forests
1996 Lake Baikal
1996 Volcanoes of Kamchatka
1998 Golden Mountains
of Altai
1999 Western Caucasus
2001 Central Sikhote-Alin
2003 Uvs Nuur Basin
2004 Natural System
of Wrangel Island Reserve
SAINT LUCIA:
2004 Pitons
Management Area
SENEGAL:
1981 Djoudj National
Bird Sanctuary
1981 Niokolo-Koba
National Park
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO:
1980 Durmitor National
Park
SEYCHELLES:
1982 Aldabra Atoll
1983 Vallée de
Mai Nature Reserve
SLOVENIA:
1988 Skocjan Caves
SOLOMON ISLANDS:
1998 East Rennell
SOUTH AFRICA:
1998 Greater St. Lucia
Wetland Park
2000 Drakensberg Park
/Okhahlamba Park
2004 Cape Floral Protected
Areas
2005 Vredefort Dome
SPAIN:
1986 Garajonay National
Park
1994 Doñana
National Park
1999 Ibiza, Biodiversity
and Culture
SRI LANKA:
1988 Sinharaja Forest
Reserve
SURINAME:
2000 Central Suriname
Nature Reserve
SWEDEN:
1996 The Laponian Area
2000/2006 Kvarken Archipelago / The High Coast
SWITZERLAND:
2001 Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn
2003 Monte San Georgio
THAILAND:
1991 Thungyai -
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife
Sanctuaries
2005 Dong Phayayen - Khao
Yai Forest Complex
TUNISIA:
1980 Ichkeul National
Park
TURKEY:
1985 Göreme National
Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
1988 Hierapolis-Pamukkale
UGANDA:
1994 Bwindi Impenetrable
National Park
1994 Rwenzori Mountains
National Park
UNITED KINGDOM:
1986 The Giant's
Causeway and Causeway Coast
1986 St. Kilda
1988 Henderson Island
1995 Gough Island Wildlife
Reserve
2001 Dorset and East
Devon Coast
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA:
1979 Ngorongoro
Conservation Area
1981 Serengeti National
Park
1982 Selous Game Reserve
1987 Kilimanjaro
National Park
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
1978 Yellowstone
National Park
1979 Everglades National
Park
1979 Grand Canyon
National Park
1980 Redwood National
Park
1981 Mammoth Cave
National Park
1981 Olympic National
Park
1983 Great Smokey Mountains
National Park
1984 Yosemite National
Park
1987 Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park
1995 Carlsbad Caverns
National Park
VENEZUELA:
1994 Canaima National
Park
VIET NAM:
1994 Ha Long Bay
2003 Phong Nha
- Ke Bang National Park
ZAMBIA/ZIMBABWE:
1989 Victoria Falls
/ Mosi-oa-Tunya
ZIMBABWE:
1984 Mana Pools National
Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
|