Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.

By clicking on the inscribed elements listed below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

You may also experience a conceptual, visual and interactive navigation through ‘Dive into Intangible Cultural Heritage’ interfaces which demonstrate the thematic interconnectedness between all the elements inscribed and their relation to nature or to threats.

The designations employed in the texts and documents of the nomination presented by the submitting State Party or States Parties do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Committee nor UNESCO concerning a) the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, b) the legal status of its authorities or c) the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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Results : 12 elements corresponding to 2 regions and 3 countries

2023¹ – 2019¹ – 2018¹ – 2016¹ – 2012¹ – 2011¹ – 2010³ – 2009² – 2008¹

2023
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bolero: identity, emotion and poetry turned into song	Cuba – Mexico
2019
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Artisanal talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala (Mexico) and ceramics of Talavera de la Reina and El Puente del Arzobispo (Spain) making process	Mexico – Spain
2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
La Romería (the pilgrimage): ritual cycle of 'La llevada' (the carrying) of the Virgin of Zapopan	Mexico
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Charrería, equestrian tradition in Mexico	Mexico
2012
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico	Mexico
2011
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Mariachi, string music, song and trumpet	Mexico
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Parachicos in the traditional January feast of Chiapa de Corzo	Mexico
Pirekua, traditional song of the P’urhépecha	Mexico
Traditional Mexican cuisine - ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm	Mexico
2009
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Places of memory and living traditions of the Otomí-Chichimecas people of Tolimán: the Peña de Bernal, guardian of a sacred territory	Mexico
Ritual ceremony of the Voladores	Mexico
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead	Mexico