Urban landscape, Colonial

Antigua Guatemala
Antigua was founded in the early 16th century. It served as the capital for the Spanish colonial government in Central America.
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Arequipa
Arequipa is a large city in the highlands at the foot of the snow-capped volcano El Misti. Arequipa has many fine colonial-era Spanish buildings built of sillar, a pearly white volcanic rock used extensively in the city, and from which it gets its nickname La Ciudad Blanca ("the white city").
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Campeche
Campeche was founded in 1540 by Spanish conquistadores as San Francisco de Campeche atop the pre-existing Maya city of Canpech or Kimpech.
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Cartagena
Cartagena, formally known as Cartagena of the Indies (Cartagena de Indias), is a large city seaport on the northern coast of Colombia.
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Churches and Convents of Goa
The Bom Jesus Basilica and a few designated convents are designated a World Heritage Site. The Basilica holds the mortal remains of St.
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Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos was designed in its definitive layout by French colonists in 1819. They laid the the urbanistic foundations of civil architecture that gives singularity to the city.
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Colonia del Sacramento
Colonia del Sacramento lies in a strategic position and therefore stands out for its fusion of cultural tradions, which can be seen in the city's layout and buildings.
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Coro and its Port
Coro is one of the most important towns with buildings of earthen construction in the Caribbean, dating from the earliest years of Spanish colonization in this region.
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Diamantina
Diamantina, an aptly named diamond mining town in the north of Minas Gerais, has been put on the World Heritage List because of two main reasons.
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Goiás
Goiás is the former capital of the state and preserves much of its colonial heritage. It was founded by the famed Bandeirante explorer Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, nicknamed Anhangüera, and was called in colonial times Vila Boa ("good village" in Portuguese).
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Guanajuato
Guanajuato was founded as a town in 1554 and received the designation as a city in 1741. It is located in one of the richest silver mining areas of Mexico (it became the world's leading silver-extraction centre in the 18th century), and is well known for its wealth of fine colonial era Spanish architecture.
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Island of Mozambique
Ilha de Mocambique is a former Portuguese trading-post on the route to India. The island was a major Arab port and boatbuilding centre long before Vasco da Gama visited in 1498.
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Island of Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis' characteristic colonial architecture along with its regular town plan, its location on an island at the mouth of the Senegal River and the system of quays, gives Saint-Louis the distinctive appearance and identity that have raised the Island to the rank of world heritage.
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Lima
During the early 16th century, the location of what is now the city of Lima was inhabited by several amerindian groups under the domination of the Inca Empire.
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Macao
Macao was the first European enclave in Asia. Its colonial history started with the arrival of Portuguese tradesmen in 1557.
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Mazagan
Mazagan (now known as El Jadida) is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco which was seized in 1502 and subsequently ruled by the Portuguese until 1769.
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Oaxaca and Monte Alban
The site actually consists of two sites: the historic town of Oaxaca and the nearby archeological site of Monte Alban.
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Old Havana
The Cuban capital Havana was founded in 1515 by the Spanish and thereby is one of the oldest cities in the New World.
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Old Town Lunenburg
Lunenburg, founded in 1753, is the best example of planned British colonial settlement in North America.
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Old Town of Galle
The main reason for inscription was that: ".. it is the best example of a fortified city built by Europeans in South and South-East Asia, illustrating the interaction of European architecture and South Asian traditions.
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Olinda
Olinda is a historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Several indigenous tribes occupied the coast of Northeastern Brazil for several thousand years, and the hills of the present day municipality of Olinda had settlements of Caetés and Tupinambá tribes, which were frequently at war.
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Ouro Preto
Ouro Preto has deserved cultural heritage status because of the overall homogeneity and global character of the city.
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Paramaribo
Paramaribo was rewarded because the city is a "gradual fusion of European architecture and construction techniques with indigenous South America materials and crafts".
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Potosí
Potosí lies beneath the Cerro de Potosí — sometimes referred to as the Cerro Rico ("rich mountain") — a mountain of silver ore, which has always dominated the city.
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Puebla
Puebla is one of the oldest colonial cities in the continent. The city of Puebla was founded on April 16, 1531 as "La Puebla de los Ángeles".
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Québec
Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain on 3 July 1608 at the site of a long abandoned St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona.
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Querétaro
Querétaro is known for its Colonial Era architecture. The city of Querétaro became so important during Spanish rule that it was dubbed "the third city of the kingdom" (after Mexico City and Puebla).
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Quito
Quito has the best-preserved, least altered historic centre in Latin America. It is located in northern Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin on the eastern slopes of the Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains.
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Ruins of León Viejo
The Ruins of León Viejo is an archaeological site that holds one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas (1524).
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Salvador de Bahia
The historical center of Salvador de Bahia, frequently called the Pelourinho, is extremely rich in historical monuments dating from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
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San Cristóbal de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna is a municipality of the northern part of the island of Tenerife. The city was founded between 1496 and 1497 by Alonso Fernández de Lugo and was the capital of the island after the conclusion of the conquest of the islands.
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Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
Cuenca is the third largest city in Ecuador, capital of the Azuay province. It is located in the Sierra, the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500m (8200 ft) above sea level.
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Santa Cruz de Mompox
Santa Cruz de Mompox is a town in northern Colombia, which has preserved its colonial character. It is located on an island in the Magdalena River where it joins the Cauca, 249 kilometers from Cartagena.
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Santo Domingo
This colonial town was founded in 1498. It boasts the Western Hemisphere's first cathedral, its first monastery, its first hospital, its first university, and its first court of law.
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São Luis
São Luís has the largest and best preserved heritages of colonial Portuguese architecture of all Latin America.
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St. George, Bermuda
This WHS consists of the Town of St George and fortifications on the island. St George is the oldest English town in the New World.
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Sucre
Sucre was founded in 1538. Very much a Spanish city during the colonial era, the narrow streets of the city centre are organised in a grid, reflecting the Andalusian culture that is embodied in the architecture of the city's great houses and numerous convents and churches.
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The Historic District of Panamá
Panama La Vieja (Old Panama) is the name used for the architectural vestiges of the Monumental Historic Complex of the first Spanish city founded on the Pacific coast of the Americas by Pedro Arias de Avila on 15 August 1519.
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Tlacotalpan
The town of Tlacotalpan was founded as a river port on the banks of the Papaloapan in the mid-16th century.
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Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
Trinidad, founded in 1514, is one of the best preserved cities in the Caribbean from the time when the sugar trade was the main industry in the region.
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Vigan
Vigan is located in the northeastern part of Luzon. It was founded as a trading town in 1572 by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo It now is the best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia, including the historical checkerboard street plan.
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Willemstad
The Historic Area of Willemstad has been designated because it is an outstanding example of European colonial history in the Caribbean.
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Zacatecas
Zacatecas was founded 1548, two years after the nearby discovery of silver. This and other mines in the vicinity attracted a large population, and it soon became one of the chief mining centres of Mexico.
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