World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage SitesUpdated for 2010, this guide fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List. In clear text that highlights all the fascinating facts, this revised edition of World Heritage Sites details all 890 properties, including the 13 new sites added in 2009. Covering 148 countries, the World Heritage List has proved to be a valuable tool in the battle to preserve much of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Its strict criteria result in only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the list, including:
The new sites added to this edition are:
Featuring gorgeous photographs and updated maps, World Heritage Sites is uniquely comprehensive. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 with the ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men and women through education, social and natural science, culture and communication. |
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... karst is delimited to the east by abrupt cliffs which rise some 300-400 m above the Manambolo river , creating an impressive canyon . The western slopes rise more Atlantic Ocean AFRICA Indian Ocean gently , and the whole western region ...
... Karst Caves . 456 CAVES OF AGGTELEK KARST AND SLOVAK KARST MESSEL PIT FOSSIL SITE The Eocene epoch was a remarkable period in the evolution of life on Earth , when mammals became firmly established in all the principal land ecosystems ...
... karst Pacific The South China Karst region extends over a surface of 500,000 km2 lying mainly in Yunnan , Guizhou and Guangxi provinces . The region displays a series of karst landforms in a variety of humid , subhumid , tropical and ...