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

Understand

the Cameroon ratify the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on December 7, 1982. The first protected site was inscribed in 1987.

the Cameroon has 2 sites registered with World Heritage, both natural.

The country has also submitted 12 sites to the Tentative List, 6 cultural, 5 natural and 1 mixed.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
3131 Dja Wildlife Reserve	Natural	(ix), (x)	It is one of the humid forests ofAfrica the largest and best protected, 90% of its area remaining untouched. Practically surrounded by the Dja river, which forms its natural limit, the reserve is especially remarkable for its biodiversity and for the great variety of primates that live there. It is home to 107 species of mammals, five of which are threatened.	UNESCO sheet
2.60916.5542 Sangha Trinational	Natural	(ix), (x)	Located in the northwest of the Congo Basin, at the meeting point of the Cameroon, from Congo and some Central African Republic, the site includes three contiguous national parks, covering a total area of 750,000 hectares, very little affected by human activity. It contains the entire spectrum of tropical rainforest ecosystems. The rich flora and fauna include Nile crocodiles and Goliath tigerfish, which are large predators. The clearings offer herbaceous species and the Sangha is home to considerable populations of forest elephants, as well as western lowland gorillas (critically endangered) and chimpanzees (endangered). The environment of the site allowed the continuation of ecological and evolutionary processes on a large scale, as well as the maintenance of a great biodiversity, including many endangered species.	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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