North America UNESCO World Heritage Sites

North America - Map
North America - Map

This is a complete list of North America UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Click on them for a detailed trip report. Not every site is covered yet but this will be somewhere in the future! Note that tentative sites are not included in this list. Have you visited any of the North American UNESCO sites then please leave a comment on this page.

Antigua and Barbuda

Barbados

Belize

  • Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
If you are visiting North America then make sure to read also:
Complete North America Travel Guide

Canada

  • L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
  • Nahanni National Park
  • Dinosaur Provincial Park
  • Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
  • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
  • SGang Gwaay
  • Wood Buffalo National Park
  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  • Historic District of Old Québec
  • Gros Morne National Park
  • Old Town Lunenburg
  • Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
  • Miguasha National Park
  • Rideau Canal
  • Joggins Fossil Cliffs
  • Landscape of Grand Pré
  • Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
  • Mistaken Point
  • Pimachiowin Aki
  • Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi

Costa Rica

  • Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
  • Cocos Island National Park
  • Area de Conservación Guanacaste
  • Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís

Cuba

  • Old Havana and its Fortification System
  • Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
  • San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba
  • Desembarco del Granma National Park
  • Viñales Valley
  • Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
  • Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
  • Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
  • Historic Centre of Camagüey

Dominica

  • Morne Trois Pitons National Park
  • Dominican Republic
  • Colonial City of Santo Domingo

El Salvador

  • Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site

Guatemala

  • Antigua Guatemala
  • Tikal National Park
  • Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

Haiti

  • National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers

Honduras

  • Maya Site of Copan
  • Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve

Jamaica

  • Blue and John Crow Mountains

Mexico

  • Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
  • Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán
  • Historic Centre of Puebla
  • Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
  • Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
  • Sian Ka’an
  • Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
  • Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
  • Historic Centre of Morelia
  • El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City
  • Historic Centre of Zacatecas
  • Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
  • Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
  • Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
  • Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
  • Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal
  • Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
  • Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
  • Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan
  • Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco
  • Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
  • Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche
  • Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
  • Luis Barragán House and Studio
  • Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
  • Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
  • Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
  • Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
  • Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco
  • Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
  • Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca
  • El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
  • Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System
  • Archipiélago de Revillagigedo
  • Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica