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Key facts
- Area
- 132 km (51 sq mi)
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- iv
- Designated
- 1999 (23rd session )
- Reference no
- 840rev
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Cuba
- Located in
- Pinar del Río Province
- Elevation
- 138
- Image
- Viñales Valley.jpg
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- Commons category
- Viñales Valley
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
Viñales Valley (Spanish: Valle de Viñales) is a karstic depression in Cuba. The valley has an area of 132 km (51 sq mi) and is located in the Sierra de los Órganos mountains (part of Guaniguanico range), just north of Viñales in the Pinar del Río Province.
In 1999, the valley was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a natural and cultural landscape because of its use of traditional tobacco-growing techniques.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viñales Valley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.