List of North American World Heritage Sites

Apr 14, 2016, 15:51 IST

Heritage Sites are the outstanding value to humanity and thus required to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world. It is our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Heritage Sites are the outstanding value to humanity and thus required to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world.

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It is our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. The list of North American World Heritage Sites is given below:

Country	World Heritage Site
Barbados	Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison
Belize	Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
Canada	L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site Nahanni National Park Dinosaur Provincial Park Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump SGang Gwaay Wood Buffalo National Park Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Historic District of Old Québec Gros Morne National Park Old Town Lunenburg Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Miguasha National Park Rideau Canal Joggins Fossil Cliffs Landscape of Grand Pré Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
Costa Rica	Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park Cocos Island National Park Area de Conservación Guanacaste Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís
Cuba	Old Havana and its Fortification System Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba Desembarco del Granma National Park Viñales Valley Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba Alejandro de Humboldt National Park Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos Historic Centre of Camagüey
Dominica	Morne Trois Pitons National Park
Dominican Republic	Colonial City of Santo Domingo
El Salvador	Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
Guatemala	Antigua Guatemala Tikal National Park Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
Haiti	National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers
Honduras	Maya Site of Copan Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Jamaica	Blue and John Crow Mountains
Mexico	Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán Historic Centre of Puebla Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan Sian Ka'an Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza Historic Centre of Morelia El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City Historic Centre of Zacatecas Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco Historic Fortified Town of Campeche Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro Luis Barragán House and Studio Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System
Nicaragua	Ruins of León Viejo León Cathedral
Panama	Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo Darien National Park Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
Saint Lucia	Pitons Management Area
United States Of America	Mesa Verde National Park Yellowstone National Park Everglades National Park Grand Canyon National Park Independence Hall Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek Redwood National and State Parks Mammoth Cave National Park Olympic National Park Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Great Smoky Mountains National Park La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico Statue of Liberty Yosemite National Park Chaco Culture Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Taos Pueblo Carlsbad Caverns National Park Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Papahānaumokuākea Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point San Antonio Missions

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