Amazing UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South America

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Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodiversity, Brazil - Location: Rio de Janeiro state
Criteria: Mixed
Year established: 2019
Description: This compelling cultural landscape includes the historic center of Paraty, one of the country’s best-preserved Portuguese colonial coastal towns.
 
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Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodiversity, Brazil - Location: Rio de Janeiro state
Criteria: Mixed
Year established: 2019
Description: Ilha Grande, a hotspot for biodiversity and conservation, is also noted for its scenic beauty, pristine tropical beaches, and rugged, verdant landscape.
 
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Sacred City of Caral-Supe, Peru - Location: Lima
Criteria: Cultural
Year established: 2009
Description: Caral is one of 18 complex urban settlements attributed to the Norte Chico civilization, which flourished between the fourth and second millennia BCE. The site features many monuments and pyramid structures.
 
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San Agustin Archaeological Park, Colombia - Location: Huila Department
Criteria: Cultural
Year established: 1995
Description: The park showcases the largest collection of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in Latin America.
 
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Historic Center of Diamantina, Brazil - Location: Minas Gerais state
Criteria: Cultural
Year established: 1999
Description: Named after the fact that it was the center of diamond mining in the 18th and 19th centuries, Diamantina is characterized by its collection of Brazilian Baroque architecture.
 
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Historic Center of Goiás, Brazil - Location: Goiás
Criteria: Cultural
Year established: 2001
Description: Goiás was founded in 1727 by Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva and was the former state capital up until 1937. Its colonial heritage is seen as an excellent example of a European settlement in the interior of South America.
 
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Pampulha Modern Ensemble, Brazil - Location: Belo Horizonte
Criteria: Cultural
Year established: 2016
Description: The buildings set within this urban project sited around an artificial lake were designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer in collaboration with the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and a number of Brazilian Modernist artists.
 
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Los Alerces National Park, Argentina - Location: Chubut Province
Criteria: Natural
Year established: 2017
Description: Named for the massive alerce tree, one of the longest-living trees in the world, the park has the largest alerce forest in the country.
 
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Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarange, Paraguay - Location: Paraguay
Criteria: Cultural
Year established: 1993
Description: Two fine examples of the many Jesuit reductions (small colonies established by the missionaries in various locations in South America) built in the 18th and 19th centuries.
 
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Central Amazon Conservation Complex, Brazil​

Location: State of Amazonas​

Criteria: Natural​

Year established: 2000​

Description: The largest protected area in the Amazon basin, the site is notable for its high biodiversity, range of habitats, and several endangered species.​

 
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Historic Quarter of Valparaíso, Chile​

Location: Valparaíso​

Criteria: Cultural​

Year established: 2003​

Description: A major stopover in the 19th century for ships sailing between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Straits of Magellan, Valparaíso prospered as a magnet for European immigrants.​

 
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Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia​

Location: Santa Cruz Department
Criteria: Natural
Year established: 2000
Description: Situated where the Amazonian rain forests and the dry forest and savannas of cerrado (upland) meet, the park is listed for its almost pristine vegetation.​

 
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Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru​

Location: San Martín
Criteria: Mixed
Year established: 1990
Description: The park is home to many endemic species, including the rare and endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey (once thought to be extinct).​

 
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Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia​

Location: Caquetá and Guaviare Departments
Criteria: Mixed
Year established: 2018
Description: The largest national park in Colombia, and the largest tropical rain forest national park in the world, Chiribiquete's defining features include the tabletop mountains known as tepuis (pictured) and over 75,000 cave paintings, some more than 20,000 years old, believed to be linked to the worship of the jaguar.​

 
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Los Katios National Park, Colombia​

Location: Antioquia and Choco Departments
Criteria: Natural
Year established: 1994
Description: Embedded in the Darién Gap, the break across the South American and North American continents, the park encompasses an extraordinary diversity of plant and animal species (it contains over 25% of the bird species reported for Colombia).​

 
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Qhapaq Ñan, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru​

Location: South AmericaCriteria: CulturalYear established: 2014Description: The Andean Road System was an extensive Inca communication, trade, and defense network of roads covering 19,000 mi (30,000 km) and built over several centuries.​

 
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