Swamps and Marshes

Connected Sites: 43

WHS that include significant Swamps and Marshes. The terms "Swamp" or "Marsh" must occur in AB evaluation. For peat bogs, see the Connection Peat.

Connected Sites

  • Sundarbans National Park
    Inscribed: 1987
    2.76
    27
    6
  • The Sundarbans
    The Sundarbans
    Bangladesh
    Inscribed: 1997
    2.82
    30
    2
    " Areas of unique natural beauty, ..., swamps, .. are also included in the property. " (OUV)
  • Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.14
    7
    4
    "The Río Plátano meanders for some 45 kilometres through the lowlands forming ox-bow lakes, backwater swamps.." (OUV)
  • Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.54
    20
    4
    "The intertidal mudflats, marshes and shallow waters are exceptionally productive" (OUV)
  • Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.68
    30
    6
    "a complex mosaic of wetlands, marshes, halophytes, dunes and desert habitats" (OUV)
  • Banc d'Arguin
    Banc d'Arguin
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1989
    2.32
    15
    2
    "this Park is formed of sand dunes, areas of coastal swamps, small islands and shallow coastal waters" (OUV)
  • Wadden Sea
    Wadden Sea
    Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
    Inscribed: 2009
    3.06
    292
    11
    "The salt marshes host around 2,300 species of flora and fauna" (OUV)
  • Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.21
    74
    18
    "There are eight intact forest formations: ..., freshwater swamp forest, ..., included in the property." (OUV)
  • Ichkeul National Park
    Inscribed: 1980
    2.05
    56
    5
    "the lake and the surrounding marshes constitute an indispensible stop-over for the hundreds of thousands of migratory birds" (OUV)
  • Sangha Trinational
    Sangha Trinational
    Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic)
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.61
    6
    2
    "a great diversity of wetland types, including swamp forests" (OUV)
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.50
    140
    8
    "Although the Wet Tropics is predominantly wet tropical rainforest, it is fringed and in a few places dissected by sclerophyll forests, woodlands, swamps and mangrove forests, adding to its diversity." (AB ev)
  • Salonga National Park
    Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Inscribed: 1984
    0
    0
    "it comprises vast marshland areas" (OUV)
  • Pantanal
    Pantanal
    Brazil
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.72
    41
    2
    "Typical of swamps, near the rivers and on waterlogged patches of earth, are clumps of acurí palm trees, forming the palm-tree groves and palm woodlands for which the region is famous" (AB ev)
  • iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.38
    59
    7
    "These include ..., swamps, and extensive reed and papyrus wetlands" (OUV), "A major threat to the Park is damage to the hydrology and salinity of the wetland system including reduction in the water supply by the transformation of the upper Mfolozi Swamps by agriculture."
  • Okapi Wildlife Reserve
    Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Inscribed: 1996
    1
    0
    "combined with swamp forests that grow alongside the waterways" (OUV)
  • Kahuzi-Biega National Park
    Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.33
    7
    4
    "The Park also contains plant formations, rare worldwide, such as the swamp and bog altitudes and the marshland and riparian forests on hydromorphic ground at all altitudes." (OUV)
  • Inscribed: 2021
    3.88
    1
    0
    "INP's megafauna benefits from natural swampy clearings of great ecological importance. These marshy clearings are relict herbaceous ecosystems that add to the diversity of the nominated property's vegetation." (AB Ev) In the Langoué basin, there is a vast marshy clearing or baï that occupies a valley floor. Small clearings of the same type exist further north in the NP and in several places just outside the park. These environments are marshes, even permanent marshes. They are of course drier in the dry season, but never disappear. (Nomination file, p. 29)
  • Virunga National Park
    Virunga National Park
    Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.99
    13
    2
    "an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori" (official description)
  • Tugay forests
    Tugay forests
    Tajikistan
    Inscribed: 2023
    0.38
    4
    1
    "The remaining 5.5 thousand hectares are occupied by lakes, swamps. " (nom file)
  • Sian Ka'an
    Inscribed: 1987
    2.82
    92
    20
    ""Petenes", tree islands emerging from the swamps." (OUV)
  • Inscribed: 1982
    3.50
    25
    4
    "The property contains a great diversity of vegetation types, including rocky acacia-clad hills, gallery and ground water forests, swamps and lowland rain forest." (OUV)
  • Okavango Delta
    Inscribed: 2014
    4.14
    85
    4
    "The natural habitats of the nominated area are diverse and include .., permanent swamps," (OUV)
  • Lorentz National Park
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.34
    4
    1
    "The park ... has a large number of streams and rivers which have cut deep valleys in the mountains and foothills as they drain south to the coastal plain. Here they form extensive areas of swamps with numerous permanent and seasonal lakes" (AB ev)
  • Laponian Area
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.36
    75
    7
    "a variety of swamp types cover another 1,000km2, the latter being the largest untouched mire complex in western Europe" (AB ev)
  • Lake Malawi
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.13
    37
    4
    "Habitat types vary from rocky shorelines to sandy beaches and from wooded hillsides to swamps and lagoons." (OUV)
  • Kuk
    Kuk
    Papua New Guinea
    Inscribed: 2008
    1.46
    2
    3
    "The Kuk swamp is now part of an extensive area of intensively cultivated wetland in several densely populated valleys" (AB ev)
  • Keoladeo National Park
    Inscribed: 1985
    2.79
    93
    4
    "mosaic of grasslands, woodlands, woodland swamps and wetlands" (OUV)
  • Hortobágy
    Hortobágy
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.30
    105
    8
    "The Puszta, represented by the Hortobágy National Park, is a complex mosaic of natural grasslands, loess ridges, alkaline pastures, meadows and smaller and larger wetlands (mostly marshes)" (official description)
  • High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.82
    107
    5
    "As a consequence of the advancing shoreline, islands appear and unite, peninsulas expand, lakes evolve from bays and develop into marshes and peat fens" (AB ev)
  • Greater Blue Mountains
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.19
    197
    15
    "localised swamps" (OUV)
  • Garamba National Park
    Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Inscribed: 1980
    1
    1
    "Covering vast grass savannas and woodlands interspersed with gallery forests and marshland depressions," (OUV)
  • Everglades
    Everglades
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.68
    259
    15
    "The Everglades contains vast subtropical wetlands and coastal/marine ecosystems including freshwater marshes, ..., saltwater marshes,..." (OUV)
  • Donana National Park
    Inscribed: 1994
    2.83
    111
    7
    "Doñana contains the last marshes of the Guadalquivir unaltered by agriculture or development." (OUV)
  • Darien National Park
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.28
    10
    2
    "exceptional variety of habitats – sandy beaches, rocky coasts, mangroves, swamps" (official description)
  • Danube Delta
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.11
    81
    7
    "This is the largest continuous marshland on Europe" (AB ev)
  • Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.40
    39
    5
    The main ecosystems are ancient deciduous Colchic rainforests and wetlands, percolation bogs and other mire types of the distinct Colchic mire region. The percolation bogs are of particular global importance as they do not exist anywhere else in the world. (Official description)
  • Central Suriname Nature Reserve
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.69
    11
    2
    "areas of swamp forest" (OUV)
  • Central Amazon Conservation Complex
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.35
    33
    5
    "a significant number of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems associated with the forest which are periodically inundated by seasonal flooding, as well as swamps." (OUV)
  • Western Ghats
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.03
    60
    5
    "The property is also key to the conservation of a number of threatened habitats, such as ... Myristica swamps." (OUV)
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  • Uvs Nuur Basin
    Uvs Nuur Basin
    Mongolia, Russia
    Inscribed: 2003
    2.69
    8
    0
    "to diverse wetlands and marshlands, freshwater and saltwater systems" (OUV)
  • Kenya Lake System
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.18
    68
    3
    "exceptional natural beauty, including falls, geysers, hot springs, open waters and marshes" (OUV)
  • Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
    Inscribed: 1985
    2.21
    14
    3
    "The monsoon and river system form four principal geological habitats: Bhabar savannah, Terai tract, marshlands and riverine tracts." (OUV)
  • Ahwar of Southern Iraq
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.98
    23
    4
    "The marshes also provide habitat for relict populations of three bird species (the African Darter, the Sacred Ibis, and the Goliath Heron) that are thousands of kilometres away from their core global populations in Africa." (OUV) - much of the marshland around the ancient cities is now dried