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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.

What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located. This is embodied in an international treaty named the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.
 

Currently, the World Heritage List includes 830 properties, being 644 cultural sites, 162 natural sites and 24 mixed sites in 138 States Parties. Brazil has actually 17 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List (10 cultural sites and 7 natural sites). Four of the seven natural sites are included in the Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve:

                • Southeast Reserves,
                • Discovery Coast Reserves,
                • Foz do Iguaçu National Park and
                • Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves.

 
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