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Event Presentation of the UNESCO Publication on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Social Inclusion in Uruguay
Nearly US$500,000 granted to support safeguarding activities in Antigua and Barbuda, Burundi, Egypt, South Sudan and Uruguay
Completion of the capacity-building programme in the Southern Cone
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Ratification of the Convention on
18 January 2007Read the Convention in: [name_language]
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Uruguay (2012 - 2016)Listing of ICH
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Candombe and its socio-cultural space: a community practice (2009, RL)
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Project
The sound of Tango - Phase II
23 October 2025 – 23 October 2025Amount (US$) 89,969
The Bandoneon: sound of Tango
1 April 2020 – 25 October 2023Amount (US$) 99,764
Documentation, promotion and dissemination of the Candombe traditional drum calls, expressions of identity of the Sur, Palermo, and Cordón neighbourhoods in the city of Montevideo
2 September 2013 – 31 August 2015Amount (US$) 186,875
Strengthening national capacities for effective safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
1 June 2012 – 1 February 2014Amount (US$) 200,000