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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Green cap.

Understand

Cape Verde ratifies the convention for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage April 28, 1988. The first protected site was inscribed in 2009.

Cape Verde has a single site registered with World Heritage, of cultural type.

The country has also submitted 5 sites to the tentative list, 3 cultural, 1 natural and 1 mixed.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
14.915-23.6051 Cidade Velha	Cultural	(ii), (iii), (vi)	The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha at the end of the 18th century, was the first colonial town built by Europeans in the tropics. Located south ofSantiago Island, it preserves part of its route and important vestiges, including two churches, a royal fortress and the place of the Pillory with its marble column of Manueline style.	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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