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The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley has been recognized as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
With this recognition of the valley located in the states of Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico reaffirms its position as the leading country in the Americas and the seventh in the world with the highest number of properties on this list.
The country has 35 registered sites: 27 cultural sites, 6 natural and 2 mixed, reported Semarnat.
The Mexican candidacy participated in the category of mixed sites with the Pimachiowin Aki proposals, "The land that gives life" in Canada. Chiribiquete National Park "La maloca del jaguar", in Colombia
This site offers surprises for visitors … / Photo: Special E n this administration has been made the inscription of four sites as UNESCO Heritage: El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar, Calakmul, Revillagigedo and now Tehuacán-Cuicatlán.
The newly registered property is located in south central Mexico. ico in the protected natural area of the biosphere reserve of Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. It has an area of 145 thousand 255.20 hectares, with a buffer zone of 344.931,68 hectares.
The Valley highlights the adaptation of the human being over a period of more than 14 thousand years, through irrigation systems, the domestication of plants, agricultural systems and complementary practices with the use of cactus and salt production, residential institutions and various political, religious and linguistic systems.
It also testifies to the emergence of Proto-Ottoman languages that have given birth to the oldest and most diverse linguistic family in the Americas, the federal agency said in a statement [19659002] Tehuacán-Cuicatlán arid or semi-arid zone with greater biodiversity on the American continent, home to unique ecosystems and species in the world, which includes 70% of the world's flora families and more than 3,000 species of vascular plants , of which 10% are endemic.
Five of the six feline species that are distributed in Mexico are on the site, such as the jaguar (Panthera onca) and the puma (Puma concolor). In addition, it is a nesting territory for the golden eagle (Aquila Chrysatetos) and the green macaw (Ara militaris).
He pointed out that it is recognized as a zone of diversification for many groups of plants, including large cactus forests ", where we still find examples of huge cactus barrels that have been used by the world. man more than a thousand years ago
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