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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the USA

("USA list":http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/us) ("MAP":http://www.43places.com/places/map/265865?lob=26899)


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Teitur

Teitur
Reykjavik

Properties submitted on the Tentative List

Teitur

Teitur
Reykjavik

Representation

I want to try and not over-represent sites on the list. I don’t think it is reasonable to list sites twice on a list like this just because the site crosses some state boarders. The map they have at the WHC doesn’t even have any boarders (to show that these belong to the world)..

Over-representation of certain sites gives a false image of the “percentage completed” and it gives them a false importance.

World heritage properties such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park should therefore only be represented on the list in one state. In this case I’ve listed it “in” Tennessee, rather than North Carolina

Multi-entity properties such as the Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek site should also only be listed once. In this case of course only Wrangell-St. Elias and the Glacier Bay National Parks are in the US

Of Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville I’ve only added Monticello, since it’s a more important building.

Glen Godfrey

Glen Godfrey
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Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park is a United States, national Park and the World Heritage site of the UNESCO located in the Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It was created in the 1906 to protect some of the best preserved cliff dwellings in the world. The park occupies 81.4 square miles near the Four Corners and the features numerous ruins of homes and the villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi. The Ancestral Puebloans made these stone villages their home in the 13th century.


 


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