Industrial Landscapes

"A diverse range of mine types are also identified with different surface expressions in a remarkably intact anthropogenic surface that presents a rare prehistoric industrial landscape of shaft depressions and up-cast waste, remnants of flint workshops, miners' camps and communication routes." – Criterion iv: "Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region represents an exceptional type of Neolithic mining landscape". (OUV)

Official name as inscribed is "Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape". The AB also describes it as a "Cultural Landscape" and comments "The Preface to the nomination dossier points out that the Latin American and Caribbean Group GRULAC agreed that Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape was the most representative of a great part of the historical development process in the American continent"