Old Havana, Trinidad and the Viñales Valley among Cuba's nine World Heritage properties
Background
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre record for Cuba shows 9 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, 7 of them cultural and 2 natural. Cuba's ratification of the World Heritage Convention is dated 24 March 1981. The cultural properties are Old Havana and its Fortification System, Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios, San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba, the Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba, Viñales Valley, the Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos and the Historic Centre of Camagüey. One of the two natural properties is Desembarco del Granma National Park; the other is Alejandro de Humboldt National Park. Cuba keeps 14 sites on its Tentative List and has held 4 mandates on the World Heritage Committee. It is counted in the Latin America and the Caribbean region of the Convention.
In plain words
Tentative List Tentative List — A country's own inventory of the properties it intends to consider for future nomination to the World Heritage List.
Ratification Ratification — The formal step by which a country becomes bound by a treaty it has signed.