RT Book, Section
SR 00
A1 Osorio, Katti
T1 Génesis de una propiedad del Patrimonio Mundial: El Mar del Sur y el "Sitio Arqueológico de Panamá Viejo y Distrito Histórico de Panamá"
YR 2016
FD 2016
SP 79
OP 94
K1 Pacific Ocean
K1 Mar del Sur
K1 Océano Pacífico
K1 Founding of Panama City
K1 History of Panama
K1 Spanish colonization
K1 Historia de Panamá
K1 Colonización española
K1 Fundación de la ciudad de Panamá
AB The city of Panama was born from the need of the Spanish empire to found a port city that served as a base for Spanish expansion in the New World, following the European discovery of the South Sea by the expedition led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Both events, the sighting of the South Sea by the Europeans in 1513 and the founding of the city of Panama in 1519 are inseparable facts. The geopolitical importance of the city of Panama was worth its transfer to the so-called "Site of the Ancon" in 1673, after the tragedy of the pirate invasion that burned it in 1671. The relation between the city of Panama and the South Sea determined its form and function in both seats, as a terminal city of strategic routes of maritime and transistmic transit from the sixteenth century to the present day, favored cultural and technological exchange. This circumstances gave rise to unique characteristics that the countries reunited under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention recognized as of exceptional universal value. For these reasons, the property now called "Archaeological Site of Old Panama and Historic District of Panama", is recognized as an inheritance of all human beings. The Old Town of Panama City was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997; The Panama Viejo Archaeological Site was added as an extension of that initial inscription in 2003. Thus, the exceptional importance of Panama, founded along the South Sea, transcended the regional and became world-wide.
T2 Memoria - Encuentro· El Mar del Sur: 500 Años Después, una visión interdisciplinaria
PB Editorial Universitaria Carlos Manuel Gasteazoro
PP Panamá, Panamá
SN 978-9962-53-271-2
AV Published
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1806/