Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso' has mentioned 'Port' in the following places:
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| Firms such as Antony Gibbs & Sons, Duncan Fox, and Williamson-Balfour Company were doing business in the town, which had become a significant trading center by 1840, with 166 British ships, out of a total of 287, anchored in its port. | WIKI |
| The port's use and traffic declined significantly, causing a decline in the city's economy. | WIKI |
| On June 6, 1837, Minister Diego Portales was shot at the port outside of Baron Hill on suspicion of promoting conspirators who opposed the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, considered a turning point of Chilean public opinion and the purpose of the war. | WIKI |
| In 1910, the port expansion work of the city, which ended in 1930, began. | WIKI |
| The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 caused a severe reduction of port activity as Valparaxc3xadso lost its vital role as the major stopping point for shipping going from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific via the Magellan channel. | WIKI |
| Container Shipping Port | WIKI |
| Valparaxc3xadso's road infrastructure has been undergoing improvement, particularly with the completion of the "Curauma xe2x80x94 Placilla xe2x80x94 La Pxc3xb3lvora" freeway bypass,[22] which will allow trucks to go directly to the port facility over a modern highway and through tunnels, without driving through the historic and already congested downtown streets. | WIKI |
| In addition, roads to link Valparaxc3xadso to San Antonio, Chile's second-largest port, and the coastal towns in between (Laguna Verde, Quintay, Algarrobo, and Isla Negra, for example), are also under construction. | WIKI |
| The port of Valparaxc3xadso is divided into ten sites which sites 1,2,3,4 and 5 are administered by South Pacific Terminal SA and sites 6,7,8,9 and 10 for Valparaxc3xadso Port Company. | WIKI |
| Valparaxc3xadso is the main container and passenger port in Chile, transferring 10xc2xa0million tons annually, and serves about 50 cruises and 150,000 passengers. | WIKI |
| The city was the first and most important merchant port on the sea routes of the Pacific coast of South America that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Strait of Magellan. | UNESCO |
| It is composed of five interlaced neighbourhoods: La Matriz Church and Santo Domingo Square, located between the hills and the plain and comprised of the church and late 19th-century buildings typical of the seaport architecture; Echaurren Square and Serrano Street, predominantly commercial in character and marked by the presence of the Port Market, commercial establishments and active street trade; Prat Pier and Sotomayor and Justicia squares, comprising the main transversal axis of the area and containing the largest public spaces; the Prat Street and Turri Square area around the foothill, featuring a number of examples of monumental architecture; and the two hills of Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepcixc3xb3n, a single neighbourhood planned and developed to a large extent by German and English immigrants, with squares, viewing points, promenades, alleyways, stairways and the top stations of some of Valparaxc3xadsoxe2x80x99s distinctive funicular elevators. | UNESCO |
| The outstanding nature of the historic quarter of Valparaxc3xadso results from a combination of three factors, all associated with its role as a port: its particular geographical and topographical environment; its urban forms, layout, infrastructure and architecture; and its attraction to and influence by people from around the world. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii) Valparaxc3xadso is an exceptional testimony to the early phase of globalisation in the late 19th century, when it became the leading commercial port on the sea routes of the Pacific coast of South America. | UNESCO |
| Within the boundaries of the property are located all the elements necessary to express the Outstanding Universal Value of the Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaxc3xadso, including the urban layout, public spaces and buildings, which range from very simple houses to monumental buildings in a variety of construction techniques, styles and adaptations to the landscape; the port and naval heritage as exemplified by Prat Pier and the customs and naval services buildings; the transportation infrastructure, including funicular elevator and trolley systems typical of the period; and a number of expressions of intangible heritage, all of which illustrate the historic quarter of the seaport city of Valparaxc3xadsoxe2x80x99s leading role in the global commercial trade associated with the late 19th century industrial era. | UNESCO |
| Without minimising the conservation challenges inherent to a living port city, the property has maintained its integrity. | UNESCO |
| It has largely retained the key features of its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including its urban elements, its architecture, its transportation systems and parts of its port infrastructure. | UNESCO |