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Encyclopedia > List of World Heritage Sites
Elabana Falls is in , part of the World Heritage site in Queensland, .
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Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage program administered by UNESCO.


The program aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind (exact criteria (http://whc.unesco.org/criteria.htm#debut)). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund under certain conditions. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.


As of 2004, a total of 788 sites have been included in the list (611 cultural, 154 natural and 23 mixed properties in 134 States Parties).


List of World Heritage Sites

See also

External links

  • UNESCO World Heritage Sites (http://whc.unesco.org) - Official site
  • List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31) - Official site
  • VRheritage.org (http://www.vrheritage.org) - documentation of World Heritage Sites
  • Worldheritage-Forum (http://worldheritage-forum.net/en/) - Weblog and Forum for World Heritage Subjects
  • Croatia World Heritage (http://www.find-croatia.com/unesco-heritage.html) - World Heritage in Croatia - UNESCO's sites

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Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
The site was proposed as a World Heritage site in 1981 by Jordan, which withdrew its claims to the city in 1988.)
Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
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