Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Category
Cultural
Inscribed under criterion (vi).
Region
Europe and North America
Canada
Inscribed
1981
Area
3,626 ha
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is about 55 km west of Lethbridge. The nearest other World Heritage site is Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi, about 160 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Lethbridge · about 71,000 peopleabout 55 km east
- Calgary · about 1,110,000 peopleabout 150 km north
- Kalispell · about 32,000 peopleabout 180 km south
- Medicine Hat · about 63,000 peopleabout 210 km east
- Red Deer · about 75,000 peopleabout 280 km north
- Great Falls · about 67,000 peopleabout 300 km south-east
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
CanadaCultural163 km away
CanadaNatural189 km away
CanadaNatural274 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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