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世界遗产档案
塞维尔采矿小镇建于20世纪早期，位于智利首都圣地亚哥以南85公里处，处于安第斯山海拔2000米以上的极端气候环境中，是布瑞登铜业公司(the Braden Copper company)在厄尔特尼恩特(El Teniente)这一世界最大的地下铜矿中为工人修建的工房。在当地劳动力与工业化国家的资源相融合，开采和冶炼高价值自然资源的过程中诞生了这个小镇，它是位于世界偏远地区企业生活区的杰出典范。在巅峰时期，塞维尔拥有15 000名居民，但在20世纪70年代小镇的大部分都被废弃了。小镇沿着从火车站升起的庞大的中心阶梯而建，地势非常陡峭，轮式车辆根本无法抵达。沿着大路分布着种有观赏树木和植物的不规则方形区域，构成了小镇的主要公共活动区或广场。在中央阶梯之外，环山小路通往较小的广场和连接小镇其他区域的二级阶梯。沿街建筑是由原木搭建的，通常漆成鲜艳的绿色、黄色、红色和蓝色。这些房屋由美国设计，其中大多数是按照美国19世纪的风格建造的，但是其他建筑，如工艺学校（1936年）则是现代主义灵感的产物。塞维尔是20世纪唯一一座为全年度使用而在山区建造的大规模工业采矿住区。
UNESCO 官方中文展开英文原文
Situated at 2,000 m in the Andes, 60 km to the east of Rancagua, in an environment marked by extremes of climate, Sewell Mining Town was built by the Braden Copper company in 1905 to house workers at what was to become the world’s largest underground copper mine, El Teniente. It is an outstanding example of the company towns that were born in many remote parts of the world from the fusion of local labour and resources from an industrialized nation, to mine and process high-value natural resources. The town was built on a terrain too steep for wheeled vehicles around a large central staircase rising from the railway station. Along its route formal squares of irregular shape with ornamental trees and plants constituted the main public spaces or squares of the town. The buildings lining the streets are timber, often painted in vivid green, yellow, red and blue. At its peak Sewell numbered 15,000 inhabitants, but was largely abandoned in the 1970s.