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Sukur Cultural Landscape
Nigeria
Date of Inscription: 1999
Criteria: (iii)(v)(vi) Madagali Local Government Area, Adamawa State N10 44 26 E13 34 19 Ref: 938 |
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Brief Description
The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its spiritual and material culture.
Sukur Cultural Landscape
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Justification for Inscription
Criterion (iii): Sukur is an exceptional landscape which graphically illustrates a form of land-use that marks a critical stage in human settlement and its relationship with its environment. Criterion (v): The cultural landscape of Sukur has survived unchanged for many centuries, and continues to do so at a period when this form of traditional human settlement is under threat in many parts of the world. Criterion vi The cultural landscape of Sukur is eloquent testimony to a strong and continuing cultural tradition that has endured for many centuries.
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