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World Heritage Sites

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

 


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