Huashan nominated for world heritage listing
In January 2015, the government of the People's Republic of China nominated the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for UNESCO's World Heritage List. The nomination was preceded by listing Huashan as 'Important Unit of Cultural Relics'...
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| Published in: | Rock art research 2016-05, Vol.33 (1), p.112-113 |
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| Summary: | In January 2015, the government of the People's Republic of China nominated the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for UNESCO's World Heritage List. The nomination was preceded by listing Huashan as 'Important Unit of Cultural Relics' in 1988, listing of the entire Landscape as a candidate for nomination in 2003 and by its submission to the Tentative World Heritage List in 2007. This property stretches along the Zuojiang River, close to the Sino-Vietnamese border, over a total distance of more than 200 km in three separate sections, located respectively in Ningming, Longzhou and Fusui Counties. This area is part of the famous southern China karst region with its thousands of towers of Middle Cambrian to Late Triassic limestone, forming one of the most spectacular karsts in the world. As the Zuojiang River winds its way through the mountains, it has created numerous sheer cliffs along its course, many of which feature occurrences of rock art in the form of red pictograms. The three sections proposed to form the Cultural Landscape stretch over a total of 105 km, and they feature thirty-eight rock art sites (LGOWCH 2012). The greatest and most spectacular of them, Huashan, constitutes the world's largest single panel of rock art. It would make a most worthy addition to the World Heritage List, dwarfing all the rock art properties already listed. |
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| ISSN: | 0813-0426 |