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UNESCO World Heritage for Ecuador |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 5 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Ecuador to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Ecuador for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Ecuador below.
 | 1978 - Galápagos Islands | Natural site |
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| 1978 - City of Quito | Cultural site |
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| 1983 - Sangay National Park | Natural site |
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| 1999 - Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca | Cultural site |
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| 2014 - Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System | Cultural site |
 City of Quito |  Galápagos Islands |  Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Ecuador are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - Oral heritage and cultural manifestations of the Zápara people |
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| 2012 - Traditional weaving of the Ecuadorian toquilla straw hat |