The Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco are ancient rock art pictures created by people long ago. These paintings are located in the Sierra de San Francisco mountain range, which is in the Mulegé Municipality of the northern part of Baja California Sur state in Mexico.
Rock Art in the Ha’il Region (Arabic: الفنون الصخرية في منطقة حائل) is the fourth site in Saudi Arabia to be added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites. The rock art includes two sites with carvings and writings found in the desert of the Ha’il Region. At both sites, an ancient group left marks on the rocks, showing their activities over 8,000 years.
The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve is a protected area located in the Gracias a Dios department on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. It covers an area of 5,250 square kilometers (2,030 square miles) and is mostly found along the Río Plátano river. The reserve is home to many endangered species and contains some of the largest remaining tropical forests in Central America.
The Richtersveld is a desert area known for its rough valleys and high mountains, located in the north-western part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. It has many different landscapes, including flat, sandy coastal plains, sharp mountains made of volcanic rock, and the Orange River, which forms the border with Namibia. The area’s height ranges from sea level to 1,377 meters (4,518 feet) at Cornellberg.
Red Bay is a fishing village in Labrador, known as an important underwater area where archaeologists study history in the Americas. From 1530 to the early 1600s, it was a key location for whaling by the Basque people. Many whaling ships, including large galleons and small chalupas, sank there.
The Quebrada de Humahuaca is a narrow mountain valley in the province of Jujuy, located in the northwest of Argentina. It is about 1,649 kilometers (1,025 miles) north of Buenos Aires. The valley is approximately 155 kilometers (96 miles) long and runs in a north-south direction.
Kerkouane, also spelled Kerkuane (Arabic: كركوان, Karkwān), is the location of an ancient Punic city in northeastern Tunisia, near Cape Bon. Kerkouane was one of the most significant Punic cities, along with Carthage, Hadrumetum (modern Sousse), and Utica. This Phoenician city was likely abandoned during the First Punic War (around 250 BC) and was not rebuilt by the Romans.
Sarazm (Tajik: Саразм) is an ancient town and a jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It has a history dating back to the 4th millennium BC, with carbon-14 dating results showing it was occupied between 3900 and 2100 BC. Today, Sarazm is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that spans multiple countries. It includes 93 parts, which are forests of European beech (Fagus sylvatica), located in 18 European countries. These sites protect the largest and least disturbed forests where beech trees are the main species.
The Pitons are two volcanic rock formations called plugs and spires found in Saint Lucia. Petit Piton is 743 meters (2,438 feet) tall, and Gros Piton is 798.25 meters (2,618.9 feet) tall. These two peaks are connected by a ridge called Piton Mitan.