Inscribed Sites
The table lists information about each World Heritage Site:
- Name: name as listed by the World Heritage Committee
- Location: geographic coordinates of the site's location
- Region: administrative region (faritra) of Madagascar where the site is located
- Year: year the site was added to the World Heritage List
- UNESCO data: the site's reference number and the criteria it was listed under (criteria i through vi are cultural, while vii through x are natural)
- Description: brief description of the site
- Site listed as "in danger"
| Name | Image | Location | Region | Year | UNESCO data | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve | 18°40′S 44°45′E / 18.667°S 44.750°E / -18.667; 44.750 (Tsingy) | Melaky | 1990 | 1990 !494; vii, x | At the Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, gradual erosion has produced vast fields of karst limestone spires known locally as tsingy. This singular landscape is interspersed with dry forests, lakes and mangrove swamps inhabited by numerous endemic and threatened lemur and bird species. | ||
| Royal Hill of Ambohimanga | 18°45′S 47°33′E / 18.750°S 47.550°E / -18.750; 47.550 (Ambohimanga) | Analamanga | 2001 | 2001 !950; iii, iv, vi | The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga in the central highlands has been a spiritual and political center for the Merina people since at least the 16th century. Home to numerous kings (including Andrianampoinimerina, who undertook the ultimately successful initiative to unite the island of Madagascar under a single ruler) and designated site of many sacred royal rituals, the hill and the village that crowns it remain sites of pilgrimage to this day. | ||
| Rainforests of the Atsinanana | 14°27′S 49°42′E / 14.450°S 49.700°E / -14.450; 49.700 (Rainforests of the Atsinanana) | Sava, Analanjirofo, Haute Matsiatra, Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Ihorombe, Anosy | 2007 | 2007 !1257; ix,x | The six national parks that make up the Rainforests of the Atsinanana host a wide array of the distinctive flora and fauna endemic to Madagascar's rainforest ecosystems. The plant and animal life in these parks are threatened as the demands of a growing human population hasten deforestation and the fragmentation of remaining forests.
This site was inscribed on the list of World Heritage in Danger in 2010 due to an increase in illegal logging in the parks following the 2009 coup d'état. |
Read more about this topic: World Heritage Sites In Madagascar
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“[One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: “What do I know?”Mthe words I bear as a motto, inscribed over a pair of scales.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)