Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
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| State Party |  Cuba |
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| Type | Natural | |
| Criteria | ix, x | |
| Identification | #839 | |
| Region2 | Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| Inscription History | ||
| Formal Inscription: | 2001 25th WH Committee Session |
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| WH link: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/839 | |
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1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List |
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Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt is a national park in the Cuban provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo. It is named after the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt who visited the island in 1800 and 1801. The park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 because of its size, altitudinal diversity, complex lithologies, landform diversity, and diversity of endemic flora and fauna. The fresh water rivers that flow off the peaks of the park are some of the largest in the insular Caribbean and because of this have high freshwater biological diversity....
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Alejandro de Humboldt National Park • Coffee Plantations in the South-East • Cienfuegos • Desembarco del Granma • Old Havana • San Pedro de la Roca Castle (Santiago de Cuba) • Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios • Viñales Valley
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