Istanbul. -The UNESCO included four new sites in China, India, Iran and Micronesia in the World Heritage List at the annual meeting of the international organization in Istanbul.
The first is a landscape of rock art in Huashan Zuojiang (People’s Republic of China), consisting of 38 sites, created between the V century. BC and the second century.
The second is an archaeological site in Nalanda, India, composed of archaeological remains of a monastery “Mahavihara”. From the third century. C. until the thirteenth century AD, in the enclosure out religious activities and teachers were brought.
They also entered the list of 11 “qanats” that form the ancient irrigation system in Iran and take water from aquifers and circulate through underground tunnels.
Finally, it was listed by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, the ceremonial center of the Eastern Micronesia, “Nan Madol “composed of 99 islands created between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, through basalt columns and blocks of coral.
the Revillagigedo archipelago . It consists of a set of four volcanic islands uninhabited southern California and it is possible that becomes part of the list of World Heritage Sunday.
The archipelago thus complete an arc of Heritage Islands Humanity begins in the Galapagos and passes through the Colombian island of Malpelo and Cocos island in Costa Rica.
the registration of the archipelago has the recommendation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN), which serves as an advisor to the UNESCO body, so it is expected that the application be approved without difficulty.
During the annual meeting 29 nominations of places are examined to be inscribed on the World heritage list cultural or natural heritage of humanity. This year, Latin America, apart from Mexico, Panama maintains only one candidate.
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