Saloum Delta
Fishing and shellfish gathering have sustained human life in the 5,000 km2 property, which is formed by the arms of three rivers. The site comprises brackish channels encompassing over 200 islands and islets, mangrove forest, an Atlantic marine environment, and dry forest.
The site is marked by 218 shellfish mounds, some of them several hundreds metres long, produced by its human inhabitants over the ages. Burial sites on 28 of the mounds take the form of tumuli where remarkable artefacts have been found. They are important for our understanding of cultures from the various periods of the delta's occupation and testify to the history of human settlement along the coast of West Africa.
萨卢姆河三角洲（Saloum Delta，塞内加尔）是作为文化遗产列入名录的，占地5000平方公里，区内物种丰富的生态系统为生活在此的2000多人提供了生活的保障，他们的主要生活来源是捕鱼业和贝类采集。三角洲位于三条河流的河汊之间，由半咸水水道环绕着200多座大小岛屿、红树林、大西洋海洋环境及干树林所组成。 在三角洲内发现了由当地居民在数千年中建造的218座人工贝冢，有些贝冢长达几百米。在28座采取了古坟的形制的埋葬场所中，出土了不同寻常的人工制品，为我们了解三角洲不同时期文化提供了重要的依据，同时它们也是西非海岸人居历史的重要见证。
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1359
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