Viñales Valley is a karstic depression in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba, covering about 132 square kilometers and marked by limestone hills called mogotes that rise as high as 300 meters. UNESCO designated the valley a World Heritage Site in 1999 in recognition of its traditional tobacco growing techniques and a cultural landscape blending indigenous, African and Spanish influences. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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Viñales Valley (Spanish: Valle de Viñales) is a karstic depression in Cuba.
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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.
In Group: Karst Landscapes and Landforms, Lead sentence
Viñales Valley (Spanish: Valle de Viñales) is a karstic depression in Cuba.
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