First sites filling gaps cited by ICOMOS

Connected Sites: 36

Gaps and underrepresented categories as identified by ICOMOS in http://www.international.icomos.org/world_heritage/gaps.pdf. Only first sites that have filled the gap or boosted the underrepresented category are named. The report dates from 2005, but the sites included are up to 2004.

Connected Sites

  • Cienfuegos
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.72
    106
    4
    modern towns 2005
  • Biblical Tells
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.03
    99
    10
    traditional irrigation 2005
  • Incense Route of the Negev
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.92
    80
    7
    cultural route 2005
  • Aapravasi Ghat
    Inscribed: 2006
    1.76
    78
    6
    slavery-migration 2006
  • Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll
    Marshall Islands
    Inscribed: 2010
    0
    0
    Nuclear energy 2010
  • Meroe
    Meroe
    Sudan
    Inscribed: 2011
    4.04
    33
    4
    Ancient Egypt 2011
  • Çatalhöyük
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.45
    75
    7
    Anatolian cultures 2012
  • University of Coimbra
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.22
    244
    9
    Education (2013) - "The University of Coimbra-Alta and Sofia influences educational institutions of the former Portuguese empire over seven centuries received and disseminated knowledge in the fields of arts, sciences, law, architecture, town planning and landscape design. Coimbra University played a decisive role in the development of institutional and architectural design of universities in the Lusophone world and can be seen as a reference site in this context."
  • Necropolis of Bet She'arim
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.86
    61
    4
    Judaism 2015
  • Saloum Delta
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.86
    38
    4
    hunting-gathering-fishing (2011)
  • Chief Roi Mata's Domain
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.16
    20
    5
    non Australian cultural sites of the Pacific 2008
  • Plantin-Moretus Museum
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.32
    260
    10
    non mining pre Industrial revolutions technological properties in Europe 2005
  • Kaiping Diaolou
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.16
    72
    7
    Asian vernacular architecture 2007
  • Caral-Supe
    Inscribed: 2009
    3.41
    62
    8
    non Mayan Precolumbian cultures 2009
  • Berat and Gjirokastra
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.54
    185
    7
    Ottomans 2005
  • Tequila
    Tequila
    Mexico
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.67
    88
    5
    Industrial landscape / non vineyard agricultural landscape (2006)
  • Stone Circles of Senegambia
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.45
    35
    3
    African archaeology 2006
  • Rjukan / Notodden
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.43
    77
    6
    electric energy (2015)
  • Rammelsberg and Goslar
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.20
    203
    11
    water energy (extension 2010)
  • Osun-Osogbo
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.53
    11
    10
    living indigenous traditions 2005
  • Mount Wutai
    Inscribed: 2009
    3.56
    45
    4
    Buddhism (2009)
  • Mostar
    Mostar
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.51
    284
    14
    Ottomans 2005
  • Margravial Opera House
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.16
    184
    8
    Music (2012)
  • Lopé-Okanda
    Inscribed: 2007
    1.95
    7
    1
    cultural sites of Central Africa 2007
  • Le Havre
    Le Havre
    France
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.62
    200
    10
    modern towns 2005
  • Kuk
    Kuk
    Papua New Guinea
    Inscribed: 2008
    1.46
    2
    3
    non Australian cultural sites of the Pacific 2008
  • Kondoa
    Tanzania
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.39
    16
    7
    African rock art 2006
  • Harar Jugol
    Harar Jugol
    Ethiopia
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.85
    42
    2
    Islam 2006
  • Dengfeng
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.36
    67
    5
    mythic origin 2010
  • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
    Inscribed: 2006
    3.10
    159
    11
    Industrial landscape / coal energy (2006)
  • Chongoni Rock Art
    Inscribed: 2006
    1.49
    13
    3
    African rock art 2006
  • Causses and Cévennes
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.20
    124
    5
    transhumance 2011
  • Camino Real
    Inscribed: 2010
    2.61
    136
    8
    land route 2010
  • Sewell Mining Town
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.85
    33
    8
    Industrial landscape (2006)
  • Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.20
    42
    7
    post independence Americas and non European technological properties 2005
  • Ahwar of Southern Iraq
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.98
    23
    4
    Mesopotamian cultures 2016