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Venezuela, Unesco Partner to Preserve World Heritage
site Santa Ana de Coro, Port of La Vela

Coro's history and architecture have earned the town a place in Unesco's World Heritage List. | Photo: Juan
Carlo Castillo Ortega Wiki Commons

Published 29 March 2018

Santa Ana de Coro is in the Engandered World Heritage Sites list since 2005
and Unesco recognized Venezuela's efforts in preserving it.
The Venezuelan Government and Unesco's World Heritage Center have partnered in a joint effort
to preserve the old town of Santa Ana de Coro and its Port of La Vela. The project has the goal of
removing the site from the endangered world heritage sites list.

“With great pleasure, I inform that the World Heritage Center

RELATED: has favorably accepted your request for assistance to contribute
to the enforcement of corrective measures required by the
Venezuelan Musical
committee,” a letter by signed Mechtild Rossler, Director of
Visionary Jose
Heritage Division & Director of the World Heritage Centre, said. 
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Aged 78 According to the letter, removing Santa Ana de Coro and its Port
of La Vela from the endangered list is one of Unesco's priorities
in Latin America and the Caribbean.

To do so, Unesco will send two technical advising missions and hand over US $30,000 to the
Venezuelan government.
The town of Santa Ana de Coro and its Port of La Vela entered the Unesco's World Heritage List in
1993, becoming the first Venezuelan site to do so, and joined the endangered list in 2005.

Santa Ana de Coro was one of the first Spanish settlements in Latin America and the first capital of
Venezuela's province. It was founded in 1527 by Juan de Ampies. It's of great historical importance,
being of particular relevance for the colonization process of the continent and cradle of many social
movements in the country.

The Venezuelan government requested technical assistance and methodological advice from Unesco's
World Heritage Fund on March 14, to develop a comprehensive plan for Coro's restoration.

“Unesco approved US $30,000 in technical assistance to help Venezuela in its actions to remove Coro
and its port from the Endangered World Heritage list. The agency recognizes the achievement in
conservation and managing that cultural asset in the last years. March 28,” tweeted Ernesto Villegas,
Venezuela's Minister of Popular Power for Culture.

The acceptance document issued by Unesco recognized Venezuela's efforts in the conservation of
Coro and its port and pointed out that measures such as a new efficient drainage system and a
managing plan should be implemented.

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