Burkina Faso
Les necropoles de Bourzanga
The necropolises of Bourzanga are groups of bural sites. They consist of 2 groups: one with Dogon jars (in which the dead were placed vertically) and one with Kurmuba stelae. The graves are underground and the stelae placed on top of them.
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- Full Name
- Les necropoles de Bourzanga (ID: 56)
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Status
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On tentative list 1996
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History of Les necropoles de Bourzanga
- 2008: Deferred
- As "São Francisco Square in the town of São Cristovão": to more convincingly demonstrate outstanding universal value
- 1996: Revision
- Includes former TWHS 'Eglise et couvant de Santo Antonio de tiers ordre de Santo Francisco, Joao Pessoa' (1982)
- 1996: Added to Tentative List
- Added to tentative list
- Criteria
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- UNESCO
- whc.unesco.org
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- whc.unesco.org — whc.unesco.org
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