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Cuba has 9 World Heritage Sites (7 cultural, 2 natural), the 37th most in the world (tied with Colombia, Vietnam, Israel, Morocco, Thailand). Hover over or tap a dot to see its name; click a name in the list to show it on the map. Listed by year of inscription.
- Old Havana and its Fortification System Havana was founded by the Spanish in 1519 and by the 17th century was one of the Caribbean's main shipbuilding centres. Although today a metropolis of about 2 million people, its old centre keeps Baroque and neoclassical monuments and a homogeneous ensemble of houses with arcades, balconies, wrought-iron gates and courtyards.
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios Trinidad, on the south-central coast of Cuba, was founded in the early 16th century and served as a bridgehead for the conquest of the American continent. Its 18th- and 19th-century buildings, such as the Palacio Brunet and Palacio Cantero, date from its prosperity in the sugar trade, which was based in the nearby Valle de los Ingenios.
- San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba San Pedro de la Roca Castle stands on a rocky promontory guarding the port of Santiago de Cuba, in the south-east of the island. Built in the 17th century amid Caribbean commercial and political rivalries, its forts, magazines, bastions and batteries, based on Italian Renaissance principles, are the most complete and best-preserved example of Spanish-American military architecture.
- Viñales Valley The Viñales Valley, in western Cuba, is ringed by mountains and dotted with steep rocky outcrops. Traditional techniques are still used to grow crops, particularly tobacco, and the vernacular architecture of farms and villages, with a multi-ethnic society, illustrates the cultural development of Cuba and the Caribbean.
- Desembarco del Granma National Park Desembarco del Granma National Park is in and around Cabo Cruz in south-east Cuba. Its uplifted marine terraces and ongoing karst development are a globally significant example of geomorphological features and geological processes, and its terraces and coastal cliffs are among the best preserved on the western Atlantic.
- Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba The remains of 19th-century coffee plantations in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra in south-eastern Cuba are evidence of a pioneering form of agriculture on difficult terrain. They shed light on the economic, social and technological history of the Caribbean and Latin America.
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, in eastern Cuba, has complex geology and varied terrain that give it a diversity of ecosystems and species unmatched in the insular Caribbean. Many of the underlying rocks are toxic to plants, which drove the evolution of numerous endemic species, making it one of the Western Hemisphere's most important sites for endemic flora.
- Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 on the Caribbean coast of south-central Cuba, first settled by immigrants of French origin, and became a trading place for sugar cane, tobacco and coffee. It first developed in the neoclassical style and later became more eclectic, while keeping a harmonious overall townscape.
- Historic Centre of Camagüey Camagüey, one of the first seven towns founded by the Spanish in Cuba, was settled at its present site in 1528 and was the centre of an inland cattle-breeding and sugar region. Its 54 ha historic centre has a system of large and small squares, winding streets and irregular blocks, highly unusual for colonial towns on plains in Latin America.