Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and the 2003 Convention

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Six elements inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

6 December 2017

Jeju (Republic of Korea), 6 December — The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, meeting in Jeju until 9 December, today inscribed six n ›››

New inscriptions to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

1 December 2016

Twenty elements added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

2 December 2015

Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

15/12/2013 (submitted on time)

On Urgent Safeguarding List elements

Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory

2014

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Key references

Ratification of the Convention on

12 April 2007

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Committee Member

Membership and participation

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Listing of ICH

Venezuela's Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi (2012, RL)

6 elements inscribed

2017: Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs (USL)
2016: Carnival of El Callao, a festive representation of a memory and cultural identity (RL)
2015: Traditional knowledge and technologies relating to the growing and processing of the curagua (RL)
2014: Mapoyo oral tradition and its symbolic reference points within their ancestral territory (USL)
2013: La Parranda de San Pedro de Guarenas y Guatire (RL)
2012: Venezuela's Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi (RL)

On-going nomination(s)

2019: Biocultural programme for the safeguarding of the tradition of the Blessed Palm in Venezuela (Art18)

Category 2 center(s)

Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latin America

Peru

Legislation

Ley de defensa y proteccion del Patrimonio Cultural

1993

Article 99 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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