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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Benign.

Understand

Benin ratifies the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on June 14, 1982. The first protected site was inscribed in 1985.

Benin has only one site registered with World Heritage, of cultural type.

The country has also submitted 6 sites to the Tentative List, 5 cultural and 1 natural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
7.186661.994381 Royal Palaces of Abomey	Cultural	(iii), (iv)	From 1625 to 1900, twelve kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful kingdom of Abomey. With the exception of King Akaba, who used a separate enclosure, each had his palace built inside an enclosure surrounded by adobe walls while retaining certain characteristics of the architecture of previous palaces in the organization of the space and choice of materials. The Abomey palaces provide exceptional testimony to a vanished kingdom.	UNESCO sheet
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex 11.241.532 Pendjari National Park 11.4642.1953 W National Park of Benin	Natural	(ix), (x)	This transnational extension (Benin, Burkina Faso) to the W National Park in Niger, inscribed in 1996 on the World Heritage List, covers a vast expanse of untouched Sudano-Sahelian savanna, with types of vegetation such as grasslands, shrubby shrubs. , wooded savannas or vast gallery forests. It is the largest and most important continuum of terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic ecosystems in the West African savanna belt. The property serves as a refuge for animal species that have either disappeared elsewhere in West Africa or are very threatened. It is home to the largest elephant population in West Africa and most of the large mammals typical of the region, such as the African manatee, cheetah, lion and leopard. It is also home to the only viable lion population in the region.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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