UNESCO World Heritage Intelligence

Fetches and normalizes UNESCO World Heritage Sites data with coordinates, criteria, danger status, and multilingual descriptions.

Features

• 1,273+ World Heritage Sites — Complete dataset from UNESCO DataHub
• Multilingual support — Names and descriptions in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese
• Geographic data — Latitude/longitude coordinates for mapping
• Filtering — By category (Cultural/Natural/Mixed), country, danger list status
• Normalized output — Clean, structured JSON with consistent field names
• Human-readable summary — ASCII table in run logs and KVS OUTPUT record

Use Cases

• Tourism & Travel — Build travel apps, itinerary planners, heritage site directories
• Research & Education — Academic studies on cultural heritage, conservation, tourism impact
• Data Analysis — Geographic analysis, country comparisons, temporal trends
• Conservation — Monitor danger list sites, track transboundary heritage
• Content Creation — Generate heritage site content, guides, educational materials

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
maxResults	Integer	Maximum number of sites to fetch (default: 100, max: 1273)
categoryFilter	String	Filter by category: "Cultural", "Natural", or "Mixed" (empty for all)
dangerOnly	Boolean	Only return sites on the Danger List (default: false)
countryFilter	String	Filter by country name (e.g., "Italy", "Japan", "Peru")

Output

Each site includes:

• Identifiers — UNESCO ID, UUID
• Names — Multilingual (6 languages)
• Descriptions — Short and full descriptions, justification
• Classification — Category, criteria (cultural/natural), inscription date
• Status — Danger list status, transboundary flag
• Geography — Countries, ISO codes, region, coordinates
• Media — Image URLs, video URLs, author/copyright info
• Components — Component count for complex sites

Example Output

{
  "id": "208",
  "name": "Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley",
  "nameFrench": "Paysage culturel et vestiges archéologiques de la vallée de Bamiyan",
  "category": "Cultural",
  "dateInscribed": "2003",
  "isOnDangerList": true,
  "countries": ["Afghanistan"],
  "isoCodes": "AF",
  "region": "Asia and the Pacific",
  "latitude": 34.84694,
  "longitude": 67.82525,
  "criteriaText": "(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)",
  "areaHectares": 158.9265,
  "mainImageUrl": "https://whc.unesco.org/document/109141"
}

Data Source

Data fetched from the official UNESCO DataHub API (data.unesco.org). No API key required. Data is updated regularly by UNESCO.

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 sites retrieved. Typical runs return 10-100 sites for $0.01-$0.10.