HERITAGE RECORD · 516

Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)

邦贾加拉悬崖(多贡斯土地)

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places). Several age-old social traditions live on in the region (masks, feasts, rituals, and ceremonies involving ancestor worship). The geological, archaeological and ethnological interest, together with the landscape, make the Bandiagara plateau one of West Africa's most impressive sites.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ650546 ↗

Area327390 ha

Administrative areaQ3373309

WikipediaBandiagara Escarpment ↗

Chinese Wikipedia邦贾加拉悬崖 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(vii)Superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.

Cultural archive

Record lead

UNESCO record lead

Brief synthesis The Cliff of Bandiagara, Land of the Dogons, is a vast cultural landscape covering 400,000 ha and includes 289 villages scattered between the three natural regions: sandstone plateau, escarpment, plains (more than two-thirds of the listed perimeter are covered by plateau and cliffs).

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