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UNESCO World Heritage for Mali |
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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 4 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Mali 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 Mali for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Mali below.
 | 1988 - Old Towns of Djenné | Cultural site |
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| 1988 - Timbuktu | Cultural site |
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 | 1989 - Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) | Mixed site |
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| 2004 - Tomb of Askia | Cultural site |
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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 Mali are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
 | 2009 - Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké |
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| 2011 - Secret society of the Kôrêdugaw, the rite of wisdom in Mali |