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02/07/2018
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General view of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Zapotitlán Salinas, Puebla, Mexico. EFE / Archivo (Photo: EFE )
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Manama, July 2 (EFE) – The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico, was declared today by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in the Mixed Site category, when 39, a meeting held in the capital of Bahrain, Manama
After two days of discussions, delegations supported the Mexican nomination, which was presented as an original Mesoamerican habitat with the presence of indigenous groups, to be included in the list of mixed sites of Unesco, due to its double natural and cultural interest
During the session yesterday, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) concluded its speech by recommending that the decision be postponed so that Mexico could review its candidacy to comply with a series of recommendations. similar requirements to those of last year. , which is not on the list.
The Spanish delegation considered yesterday that Mexico "replaced the comments that had been made last year on this nomination" and affirmed that it fulfilled the criteria for "being able to fully include them as a mixed asset in the World Heritage List ".
Once registered, the Mexican delegation pointed out that the site "is not composed of separate but" intertwined realities and represents for Mexico a "conceptual paradigm" with some "exceptional values".
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán is an important flora reserve that covers 490 186 hectares spread in 30 municipalities of the state of Oaxaca (south of the country) and 21 of Puebla (center).
There are 70% of the world's flora families and a "world center of agrobiodiversity" for many groups of plants, including cacti, which form vast forests, which shape some of the valley's landscapes for convert it "into one of the most unique regions of the world."
Within the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, a protected natural area since 1998, indigenous peoples have lived and adapted their ways of life with the land, plants and animals, generating a thousand-year-old cultural tradition respected by the present inhabitants.
The valley thus becomes the second mixed place on the Unesco list for Mexico, which already has 35 world heritage sites.
EFE
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