List Of World Heritage Sites In The Philippines

The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated six World Heritage Sites in the Philippines. The UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.

The Philippines, following its ratification of the convention on Thursday, September 19, 1985, made its historical and natural sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The Philippines had its first sites included in 1993, and since 2014, has six sites on the list spanning nine locations. Of those six sites, three are cultural and three natural. The first 5 sites inscribed in the UNESCO Heritage List was initiated by ICOMOS Philippines, a non-profit heritage organization, which partnered with the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines and the Heritage Conservation Society.

The Philippines has a cultural inventory, called the '' Philippine Registry of Cultural Property'' or ''PRECUP'', and a natural inventory called the ''National Integrated Protected Areas System'' or ''NIPAS''. Both of which were established by various Philippine laws. The intangible cultural heritage list of the Philippines is under the PRECUP.

The Philippines won its first ever mandate to the powerful World Heritage Committee in 1991 under President Corazon Aquino. The Filipino delegation served until 1997. Its second mandate was won in 2013 under President Noynoy Aquino. The Filipino delegation served until 2017.

World Heritage Sites

In the 1990s, Filipino architect Augusto Villalón represented the Philippines in the UNESCO Committee and drafted the nomination dossiers of 5 heritage inscriptions. All the five inscriptions, which were the first five UNESCO sites in the Philippines, were declared as UNESCO World Heritage Sites from 1993 to 1999. These sites include the Baroque Churches of the Philippines (Miag-ao in Iloilo; Paoay in Ilocos Norte; Santa Maria in Ilocos Sur, and San Agustin in Manila); Tubbataha Reef National Park, Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Historic City of Vigan, and the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras After Villalón retired, the country had a 14-year drought in UNESCO World Heritage designations, which would be broken only in 2014, when Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The table lists information about each World Heritage Site:
:Name: as listed by the World Heritage Committee
:Location: city or province of site
:Region: one of the 17 regions of the Philippines
:UNESCO data: the year the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List; the criteria it was listed under: criteria ''i'' through ''vi'' are cultural, while ''vii'' through ''x'' are natural; ''(the column sorts by year added to the list)''
:Period: time of construction
:Description: brief description of the site
:Ref: references

Tentative list

The following 19 sites are on the Tentative List for the Philippines, meaning that the government intends to consider them for nomination in the future:

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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Apo Reef Natural Park
, Sulu Sea
, Pleistocene Epoch
, The site is the second biggest producer of juvenile marine fishes in the world, next only to the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Baroque Churches of the Philippines (''Extension'')

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, 18th to 19th centuries
, All five baroque churches have been declared as National Cultural Treasures of the Philippines.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Batanes Protected Landscapes and Seascapes
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, Pleistocene Epoch and 100 AD
, The Mahatao Church of Batanes is a declared National Cultural Treasure of the Philippines.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Butuan Archeological Sites
, Agusan del Norte
, 10th century
, The site exemplified and concretized the capability of the pre-Hispanic Rajahnate of Butuan as a nation with great expertise in boat-making, seafaring, and gold manufacturing.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Chocolate Hills Natural Monument
, Bohol
, Pleistocene Epoch
, The site is the focal property of the proposed Bohol Global Geopark Reserve.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Coron Island Natural Biotic Area
, Palawan
, Pleistocene Epoch
, The site is within the Palawan UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , El Nido- Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area
, Palawan
, Pleistocene Epoch
, The site is within the Palawan UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Kabayan Mummy Burial Caves
, Benguet
, 100 AD
, The site has been listed by the World Monuments Fund for immediate international conservation. It is a declared National Cultural Treasure of the Philippines.
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, style="font-weight:bold;" , Mayon Volcano Natural Park (MMVNP)
, Albay