Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
World Heritage
Mexico
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From 100 BC to 1300 AD, the San Francisco Mountains (in the El Vizcaino Reserve in Baja California) were home to a group of people who have now vanished, but who left behind one of the world's most outstanding collections of rock art. The dry climate and inaccessibility of the area have allowed the paintings to be extremely well preserved. The paintings depict human figures and many animal species, and depict the relationship between humans and the environment, revealing a highly sophisticated culture. The composition and size of the paintings, the precision of the outlines and the diversity of the colors, and above all the number of rock art sites, are impressive testimony to a unique artistic tradition.
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Information extracted from Wikidata
| country | Mexico |
| image | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baja%20California%20Sur.jpg |
| located in the administrative territorial entity | Baja California Sur |
| genre | cave painting |
| executive body | Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco |
| office held by head of the organization | http://g.co/kg/m/02qfnhx |
| Commons category | Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco |
| coordinate location | Point(-112.916111111 27.655555555) |
| area | 182600 |
| World Heritage criteria | World Heritage selection criterion (i) |
| start time | 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| official name | الرسوم على الصخور في سييرا دي سان فرانسيسكو |
| official name | Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco |
| official name | Pinturas rupestres de la Sierra de San Francisco |
| official name | Peintures rupestres de la Sierra de San Francisco |
| official name | サンフランシスコ山地の岩絵群 |
| official name | Rotsschilderingen van de Sierra de San Francisco |
| official name | Наскальная живопись в горах Сьерра-де-Сан-Франсиско |
| official name | 圣弗兰西斯科山脉岩画 |
| volume as quantity | World Heritage selection criterion (i) |