洛佩-奥坎德生态系统与文化遗迹景观

洛佩──奥坎德生态系统与文化遗迹景观展示了保护完好的茂密热带雨林与残余热带草原环境之间的奇妙接合，这里的物种丰富，包括濒危的大型哺乳动物，是多种生物的栖息地。该遗址展现了生物及其栖息地适应冰川后期气候变化的生态和生物进程。这里有不同民族相继生活的证据，他们在山岭、岩洞和庇护所周围留下了大量保存比较完好的居住遗迹，同时还有炼铁的遗迹，遗迹约1800幅杰出的岩石雕刻。该遗产包括新石器时代和铁器时代遗址，还有岩刻艺术，共同反映了班图人(Bantu)和西非其他民族沿奥果韦河谷(the River Ogooué valley)向茂密的常绿刚果森林北部，再到中东部和南部非洲的主要移徙路线，这一移徙书写了撒哈拉以南非洲的发展。这是加蓬列入世界遗产的第一处遗址。

The Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda demonstrates an unusual interface between dense and well-conserved tropical rainforest and relict savannah environments with a great diversity of species, including endangered large mammals, and habitats. The site illustrates ecological and biological processes in terms of species and habitat adaptation to post-glacial climatic changes. It contains evidence of the successive passages of different peoples who have left extensive and comparatively well-preserved remains of habitation around hilltops, caves and shelters, evidence of iron-working and a remarkable collection of some 1,800 petroglyphs (rock carvings). The property’s collection of Neolithic and Iron Age sites, together with the rock art found there, reflects a major migration route of Bantu and other peoples from West Africa along the River Ogooué valley to the north of the dense evergreen Congo forests and to central east and southern Africa, that has shaped the development of the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

双重遗产


国别	加蓬 Gabon
中文名称	洛佩-奥坎德生态系统与文化遗迹景观
英文名称	Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda
遗产类别	自然文化双遗产
登录年份	2007
选入标准	(iii)(iv)(ix)(x)