The country with the most UNESCO World Heritage sites from America is Mexico

Mexico - Mexico has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites among countries in the Americas. With 33 entries, it ranks sixth in the world. About half of the thousand world heritage sites listed as monuments of great natural or cultural value are located in Europe and North America, while there are over 130 in Latin America and the Caribbean, reported the EFE agency.

Of the Mexican sites, 27 are in the cultural category, five are in the natural category, and one is in the mixed category. The Ministry of Culture highlighted two of the most recent inscriptions in its report. The tropical forests of Calakmul, inscribed in 2014, and the aqueduct of Father Tembleque, which was added to the list last year.

The Calakmul rainforest, which is on the list along with the ancient Mayan city of the same name, is located in southern Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. Covering an area of 750,000 hectares, it is the second largest tropical forest in America after the Amazon. UNESCO included it in its list in 2002 in the category of mixed sites.

The aqueduct of Father Tembleque is named after the Franciscan priest from Spain who began its construction in 1555. For nearly twenty years, this 48-kilometer-long system was built together by Franciscan missionaries and indigenous people. It runs from the state of Mexico to the state of Hidalgo and reaches its highest point - forty meters - in Tepeyahualco.

Among other Mexican sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list are the historic centers of the cities of Oaxaca, Puebla, and the Mexican capital, as well as the pre-Hispanic cities of Palenque, Teotihuacán, and Chichén-Itzá with their pyramids or the biosphere reserve of the migrating monarch butterflies.

The area of blue agave cultivation in Jalisco state, including the ancient industrial facility for producing tequila made from this plant, is also designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Italy holds the record for the most entries on the UNESCO Heritage list with 51 sites. (On the list, which began to be created in 1978, the Czech Republic has 12 monuments, including the historic cores of Prague, Český Krumlov, Telč, and Kutná Hora, the gardens and castle in Kroměříž, the Lednice-Valtice area, and the Tugendhat Villa in Brno - note from ČTK).