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The valley of Tehuacán-Cuicatlán in Mexico, was declared today by the Unesco World Heritage Site in the category of mixed site at the time of A meeting in the capital of Bahrain, Manama.
After two days of talks, delegations supported the Mexican nomination, which was presented as an original Mesoamerican habitat with the presence of indigenous groups so that it appears on the list of mixed sites of the year. Unesco, because of its dual natural and cultural interest.
In yesterday's session, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) ended its intervention by recommending the postponement of the decision. Mexico may consider the application to comply with a series of requirements, a similar issue to that of last year, which is not on the list.
The Spanish delegation estimated yesterday that Mexico "has made the observations that were made last year to this application" and affirmed that it has met the criteria for "being able to register them fully as a mixed asset on the World Heritage List. "
Once registered, the Mexican delegation stresses that The site" is not composed of separate but "intertwined" realities, and represents for Mexico a "conceptual paradigm" with "exceptional values".
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán is an important reserve of flora that covers 490 thousand186 hectares distributed in 30 municipalities of the state of Oaxaca (south of the country) and 21 of Puebla (center).
There are 70% of the families of the world's flora and a "world center of [19659014] agrobiodiversity " for many groups of plants including cacti, which form large forests, which shape some landscapes of the valley to make it "one of the most unique areas in the world". [19659007] Within the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, a protected natural area since 1998, indigenous peoples have lived and adapted their way of life with the land, plants and animals, generating a thousand-year-old cultural tradition respected by the inhabitants
The valley thus becomes the second mixed place on the list of Unesco for Mexico, which already has 35 world heritages.
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