Gedeo Cultural landscape

Gedeo Cultural landscape
Photo by Marcel Staron.

The Gedeo cultural landscape represents the traditional agroforestry practices of the indigenous Gedeo community.

The Gedeo have used the forests for millennia for the cultivation of enset (a plant that is the ingredient for a staple flatbread) and later coffee. They developed a system of customary laws and norms to use the forests sustainably. The area also includes ritual sites such as megalithic clusters of steles.

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Full Name
The Gedeo Cultural landscape
Unesco ID
1641
Country
Ethiopia
Inscribed
2023
Type
Cultural
Criteria
3 5
Categories
Cultural Landscape - Continuing
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Site History

2023 Advisory Body overruled

ICOMOS suggested immediately inscribing In Danger. Overturned by amendment from Qatar.

2023 Inscribed

2021 Incomplete - not examined

2020 Revision

Successor to "Gedeo Mixed Cultural and Natural Landscape" (2012)

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