The United Nations declares Colombian Park a World Heritage Site

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BOGOTA – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday hailed the decision of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Educational Organization (UNESCO) to include the National Park of Chiribiquete in the list of World Heritage Sites

"Good news for Colombia! "UNESCO has named Chiribiquete a natural and cultural World Heritage Site," wrote Santos on Twitter

. The president said that he was going Monday to Cerro Azul in the Lindosa mountain range, near the park.

The expansion of the protected area from nearly 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) to almost 4.3 million hectares (10.6 millions of acres).

The expansion of the park aims to conserve the biodiversity of the region and mitigate the effects of climate. change to ensure a reliable water supply for the indigenous farming communities of the Orinoco and Amazon river basins.

Chiribiquete is home to the largest number of rock paintings in the world, with 50 panels of an average height of 7 meters and more than 75,000 individual paintings dating back more than 20,000 years.

– BERNAMA