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The World Heritage Committee of Unesco has approved the inclusion of six new sites in its list of protected cultural sites, waiting tomorrow for the analysis of a dozen nominations, of which those presented by Colombia, Mexico and Spain.
At its annual meeting in Bahrain, the committee accepted nominations from sites in South Korea, India, Iran, Japan, Germany and Denmark, which are added to the other three sites included the day before. the vote, located in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Kenya.
Among the new world heritage sites are the neo-Gothic Victorian and Art Deco buildings in Mumbai (India); the places used by Christians in Japan at the time when their religion was banned in the country from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century; or a series of Buddhist monasteries in the mountains of South Korea.
In addition, the Inuit Inuit and Inuit hunting grounds in Denmark and the Hedeby and Danevirke Archaeological Ensemble will become World Heritage Sites. Germany
After a long debate, the committee decided to postpone the deliberations on the controversial proposal of Belgium and France to include in the World Heritage List the burials of the First World War (1914-1918 ) Occidental
In relation to these cemeteries, a group of countries, consisting of Spain, Norway and Hungary, requested that the debate be postponed until a further analysis is made as to whether the World Heritage Convention protects sites related to conflicts. Unesco will continue its sessions tomorrow to analyze the rest of the candidates, including the National Natural Serrania Park of Chiribiquete (Colombia), the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve (Mexico) and the Medina Azahara Caliphate City (Spain). ).
The turn of the Spanish candidate will be the third, once the debates over the Prosecco hills (Italy) and the mining landscape of Rosia Montana (Romania), while on the Colombian record he will be voted in seventh place and Mexico will be eighth.
The Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park is located in the Amazonian region of southern Colombia, it is the largest national park of the country with 2.7 million hectares and the largest. one of the most important wild areas in the world.
One of the most "impressive" features of Chiribiquete, according to the UNESCO Working Paper, is the existence of many tepuyes (steep plateaus and flat peaks) that offer a landscape spectacular highlighted by an isolated and imprecise nature. The area has been recorded more than 75 000 rock paintings under the walls of about sixty shelters created under the rocks that line the base of the tepuis, with representations that are interpreted as hunting scenes, battles , dances and ceremonies related to a supposed cult of the jaguar, symbol of power and fertility.
It is also home to many emblematic species, including the jaguar, the cougar, the Brazilian tapir, the giant otter or the monkey.
The park's biodiversity values are "intimately linked" to cultural and archaeological values, which are "closely associated with the spiritual beliefs and values of the Aboriginal peoples who live there."
EL VALLE DE TEHUACÁN-CUICATLÁN
The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, in south-central Mexico, coincides with "a global hotspot for biodiversity in an arid zone" or semi-arid that has "one of the highest levels of biodiversity" in North America.
Thuacán-Cuictalán is an important reserve of flora, since there are 70% of families of the world's flora and a "world center of agrobiodiversity" for many groups of plants, including cacti, which form vast forests, which shape certain landscapes of the valley to make it "one of the most unique regions in the world".
In addition, it stands out for its "impressive" animal diversity and is home to a "rarely high number of endangered species", of which 38 are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list. nature (IUCN).
The biodiversity of this region has "a long history of supporting human development" and currently one-third of all the diversity of the Tehuacán-Ciucatlán Valley (about a thousand species) is used by the local population
More: Charreria, certified to Unesco
According to the information of EFE
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