Old Havana and its Fortification System
A World Heritage Site in Cuba, inscribed in 1982 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Cuba
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Inscribed
- 1982
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iv)(v)
- Property area
- approx. 238.7 ha
- Component parts
- 11
- Coordinates
- 23.1333, -82.3500
- UNESCO ID
- 204
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Vieille ville de La Havane et son système de fortifications
- Spanish
- Ciudad vieja de La Habana y su sistema de Fortificaciones
- Chinese
- 哈瓦那旧城及其工事体系
Other World Heritage Sites in Cuba
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (2001)
- Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba (2000)
- Desembarco del Granma National Park (1999)
- Historic Centre of Camagüey (2008)
- San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba (1997)
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios (1988)
- Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos (2005)
- Viñales Valley (1999)
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