Cultural Landscape of Maymand World Heritage Site

Official name

Cultural Landscape of Maymand | UNESCO

Country

Iran | Map

Continent

Asia

Location

30.1680° Lat, 55.3755° Lon | Map

Code

1423

Time Zone

Asia/Tehran (+0330, +0330)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2015. Maymand is a self-contained, semi-arid area at the end of a valley at the southern extremity of Iran’s central mountains. The villagers are semi-nomadic agro-pastoralists. They raise their animals on mountain pastures, living in temporary settlements in spring and autumn. During the winter months they live lower down the valley in cave dwellings carved out of the soft rock ( kamar ), an unusual form of housing in a dry, desert environment. This cultural landscape is an example of a system that appears to have been more widespread in the past and involves the movement of people rather than animals.