The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates World Heritage Sites of outstanding universal value to cultural or natural heritage which have been nominated by signatories to the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural heritage includes natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites that are important from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty. UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, and vii through x are natural. The implementation of the World Heritage Convention, the addition or removal of properties from the World Heritage List, and the allocation of funds, among other responsibilities, are managed by the World Heritage Committee. There are twenty-one state members on the committee. Although a term is a maximum of six years, most state parties choose to relinquish their responsibilities after four years so other countries can have the opportunity to be a member of the committee.

Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the five regions defined by UNESCO, alongside Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific and Europe and North America. It consists of 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations that have accepted the World Heritage Convention, making their historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list as World Heritage sites. The region has 155 properties on the World Heritage List. Of those properties, 107 were inscribed for their cultural significance, 40 for their natural significance, and 8 for both their natural and cultural significancebeing termed mixed sites. There are currently 7 World Heritage Sites in Latin America and the Caribbean that are endangered.

In addition to sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage List are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. The Latin America and the Caribbean region has 239 properties on the tentative list.

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Antigua and Barbuda

World Heritage Sites Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites

Tentative list , Antigua and Barbuda does not maintain any sites on its tentative list.

Argentina

World Heritage Sites Los Glaciares National Park Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil) Iguazú National Park Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas Península Valdés Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba Quebrada de Humahuaca Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement Los Alerces National Park ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination

Tentative list Valle Calchaquí Sierra de las Quijadas National Park La Payunia, Campos Volcánicos Llancanelo y Payún Matrú Geological, Paleontological and Archaeological Provincial Reserve Pehuén Co–Monte Hermoso Moisés Ville City of Tigre and its rowing clubs Cueva de las Manos and associated sites of the Pinturas River basin Workers' Assembly Halls (Argentina)

Bahamas

World Heritage Sites , The Bahamas does not have any sites inscribed on the World Heritage List.

Tentative list Historic Lighthouses of The Bahamas The Inagua National Park

Barbados

World Heritage Sites Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison

Tentative list The Scotland District of Barbados The Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum

Belize

World Heritage Sites Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

Tentative list , Belize does not maintain any sites on its tentative list.

Bolivia

World Heritage Sites City of Potosí Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos Historic City of Sucre Fuerte de Samaipata Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture Noel Kempff Mercado National Park Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System

Tentative list Sajama National Park Pulacayo, Industrial Heritage Site Incallajta, the largest Inca site in the Kollasuyo Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time Sacred Titicaca Lake

Brazil

World Heritage Sites Historic Town of Ouro Preto Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Brazil) Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos Iguaçu National Park Brasília Serra da Capivara National Park Historic Centre of São Luís Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás Central Amazon Conservation Complex Pantanal Conservation Area Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes Between the Mountain and the Sea Pampulha Modern Ensemble Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodiversity Sítio Roberto Burle Marx Lençóis Maranhenses National Park Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park Amazonia Theaters

Tentative list Church and Monastery of São Bento, Rio de Janeiro Palace of Culture, former headquarters of the Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro Pico da Neblina National Park (Amazonas) Taim Ecological Station (Rio Grande do Sul) Serra do Divisor National Park Serra da Canastra National Park Cavernas do Peruaçu Federal Environmental Protection Area (APA) / Veredas Do Peruaçu State Park Cultural Landscape of Paranapiacaba: Village and railway systems in the Serra do Mar Mountain Range Ver-o-Peso Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble Cedro Dam in the Quixadá Monoliths Geoglyphs of Acre Itacoatiaras of Ingá River Sociobiodiverse Cultural Basin of the Chapada do Araripe Oswaldo Cruz Foundation: health, science and culture in Manguinhos Protected Areas of the Caatinga Dry Tropical Forest Golden lion tamarin Protected Areas Abrolhos Marine National Park

Chile

World Heritage Sites Rapa Nui National Park Churches of Chiloé Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works Sewell Mining Town Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region

Tentative list Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes Juan Fernández Archipelago National Park Fell and Pali Aike Caves Rupestrian art of the Patagonia The Defensive Complex of Valdivia Locomotive depot of the Temuco Train Station Malleco Viaduct Houses of the hacienda San José del Carmen el Huique San Francisco Church and Convent La Moneda Palace Cerro El Plomo high shrine Ayquina and Toconce San Pedro de Atacama Baquedano Street Churches of the Altiplano Monte Verde Archaeological Site Lota Mining Complex Chilean Pisco Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape Pintados Geoglyphs Archaeological Complex in the Tarapacá Region

Colombia

World Heritage Sites Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena Los Katíos National Park Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox National Archeological Park of Tierradentro San Agustín Archaeological Park Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System Chiribiquete National Park – "The Maloca of the Jaguar"

Tentative list Seaflower Marine Protected Area (MPA) Canal del Dique - Dike Canal University City of Bogotá Pre-Hispanic Hydraulic System of the San Jorge River Tayrona and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Parks and their Archaeological Sites Catholic Doctrine Temples United Fruit Company Infrastructure South of Ricaurte Province Puente de Occidente (Western Bridge) Cultural Landscape of the Vernacular Stilt Housing of Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta and of Medio Atrato The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona: an ethical, political, social and poetic manifesto Paleontological Sites of the Middle Devonian of Floresta, Boyacá The La Venta Konzentrat-Lagerstätte: a Neotropical moist forest biome of the middle Miocene

Costa Rica

World Heritage Sites Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park Cocos Island National Park Area de Conservación Guanacaste Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís

Tentative list Corcovado National Park and Isla del Caño Biological Reserve

Cuba

World Heritage Sites Old Havana and its Fortifications Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba Desembarco del Granma National Park Viñales Valley Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba Alejandro de Humboldt National Park Historic Centre of Cienfuegos Historic Centre of Camagüey

Tentative list Ciénaga de Zapata National Park National Schools of Art, Cubanacán Escuelas Nacionales de Arte de Cubanacán Reef System in the Cuban Caribbean Tropicana Club Vedado, an early garden city Central Campus of the University of Havana Triolet French Drugstore (Pharmacy Museum) Santiago de Cuba: Its Historic Settings Sites of Memory of Slavery in Cuba Caguanes National Park The National Park Ciénaga de Zapata and the Speleological-Lacustrine System Reef System of the Cuban Caribbean Albear Aqueduct

Dominica

World Heritage Sites Morne Trois Pitons National Park

Tentative list Fort Shirley Morne Diablotin National Park Soufriere-Scott's Head Marine Reserve

Dominican Republic

World Heritage Sites Colonial City of Santo Domingo

Tentative list Jacagua, Villa of Santiago Montecristi Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo, La Vega Historical Centre of Puerto Plata City of Azúa de Compostela Sanate Sugar Mill Nuestra Señora de Monte Alegre or la Duquesa Sugar Mill Villa La Isabela Archaeological Site Jaragua National Park First Colonial Engines of America Cotubanamá National Park Marine Mammals Sanctuary Bancos de La Plata and Navidad