Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and the 2003 Convention

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The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage selected two projects for inclusion on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

13 December 2019

Additions to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices: Safeguarding strategy of traditional crafts for peace building, Colombia The safeguarding strategy of traditional crafts for ›››

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

6 December 2017

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

1 December 2016

Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

15/12/2013 (submitted on time)
15/12/2020 (submitted)
15/12/2026

On Urgent Safeguarding List elements

Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs

2017

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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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Membership and participation

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Listing of ICH and Register

La Parranda de San Pedro de Guarenas y Guatire (2013, RL)

8 elements inscribed

2021: Festive cycle around the devotion and worship towards Saint John the Baptist (RL)
2019: Biocultural programme for the safeguarding of the tradition of the Blessed Palm in Venezuela (Art18)
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)

Backlog nomination(s)

2022: Program for the safeguarding of the Bandos and Parrandas of the Holy Innocents of Caucagua: nuclei of initiation and transmission of wisdoms and community councils (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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