Zambia
Barotse Plains
Barotse Plains
The Barotse Plains Cultural Landscape is situated on the Zambezi River floodplain, and demonstrates how the people of Barotseland have adapted to their environment through the use of canals, weirs, and land reclamation.
The landscape has been inhabited by the Lozi, or Barotse, people continuously since the early 1800s, and contains villages, fields, and sacred burial grounds. Each year during the Kuomboka ceremony, the Litunga, king of the Lozi people, sails from the Lealui Royal Palace on the floodplains to the Limulunga compound in the highlands at the start of the flood season.
Site Info
Official Information
- Full Name
- Barotse Plains Cultural Landscape (ID: 5428)
- Country
- Zambia
- Status
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Nominated 2027
Site history
History of Barotse Plains
- 2026: Incomplete - not examined
- 2014: Advisory Body overruled
- ICOMOS advised Deferral
- 2014: Referred
- 2013: Incomplete - not examined
- 2009: Added to Tentative List
- Added to tentative list
- Criteria
- iii
- v
Links
- UNESCO
- whc.unesco.org
All Links
UNESCO.org
- whc.unesco.org — whc.unesco.org
News Article
- Nov. 6, 2022 getaway.co.za — Process to declare Zambia’s Barotse Plains a World Heritage Site halted
- Dec. 3, 2021 lusakatimes.com — Zambia halts campaign to have plains listed as UNESCO World Heritage site
- April 30, 2015 barotsepost.com — Zambian government has been accused of pressuring the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) and the Litunga of Barotseland to support the Barotse Plains bid
Community Information
- Community Category
- Cultural Landscape: Continuing
Travel Information
Recent Connections
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Incomplete more than once
2013, 2026
Connections of Barotse Plains
- World Heritage Process
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Incomplete more than once
2013, 2026
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News
- getaway.co.za 11/06/2022
- Process to declare Zambia’s Barots…
- lusakatimes.com 12/03/2021
- Zambia halts campaign to have plai…
- barotsepost.com 04/30/2015
- Zambian government has been accuse…
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Community Reviews
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This is an area whose landscape is an amazing wilderness..the rich cultural heritage of the Lozi people is unique to barotse flood plain..You find burial sites dating to the 1800s..sharing borders with Namibia and Angola barotseland is full is flora and fauna with possibiliy of endemism
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