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Chichen Itza

Cultural World Heritage property in Mexico, inscribed in 1989 under criteria (i), (ii), (iii).

Chichen Itza, Mexico
Photo: Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
Mexico
Year of inscription
1989
Criteria
iiiiii
Location
Yucatán
What it is
ancient city, archaeological site
Founded or built
455
Official website
chichenitza.com/
Reference
WHC 483 · Wikidata Q5859

Why it is on the List

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.(ii)Shows a major exchange of ideas — in architecture, technology, art, town planning or landscape design — over time or across a cultural area.(iii)A unique or exceptional witness to a cultural tradition or a civilisation, living or vanished.
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Straight-line distance between the recorded coordinates.

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