HERITAGE RECORD · 606

Serra da Capivara National Park

卡皮瓦拉山国家公园

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

Many of the numerous rock shelters in the Serra da Capivara National Park are decorated with cave paintings, some more than 25,000 years old. They are an outstanding testimony to one of the oldest human communities of South America.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ267394 ↗

Inception1979

Area1291 ha

Administrative areaQ1935702 · Q2079682 · Q2078647 · Q1938932 · Q2089172 · Q762804

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Chinese Wikipedia卡皮瓦拉山脈國家公園 ↗

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Selection criteria

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

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

Cultural archive

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Brief synthesis Established in 1979, the Serra da Capivara National Park stretched across the municipalities of São Raimundo Nonato, São João do Piauí, and Canto do Buriti in the south-eastern section of Piauí state in Brazil’s Northeast Region.

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