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Longini Fossatum/Bourgousnoes
Longini Fossatum/Bourgousnoes: a Tzanika fort in northeastern Anatolia named by Procopius (Aed. 3.6.24-25), where Justinian built Bourgousnoes; tentatively identified with Zindanlar Arazı near Gümüşhane, Barrington Atlas 87 E4.
Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.), or I Longobardi in Italia. I luoghi del potere, is a 2011 UNESCO serial World Heritage site of seven Lombard fortresses, churches, and monasteries across Italy, inscribed under criteria (ii), (iii), and (vi).
Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens is a public botanical garden in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, created by Pierre S. du Pont, who bought the Peirce farm in 1906 to save its historic trees.
Longyan UNESCO Global Geopark
Longyan UNESCO Global Geopark (龙岩世界地质公园), Fujian, China, designated 2024; 2,175 km² of Danxia landforms, Meihuashan granite, Zijinshan copper-gold deposit, South China tiger habitat, and Hakka culture.
Longzhong Botanical Garden
Longzhong Botanical Garden (隆中植物园), built 2000 in Xiangyang, Hubei, is a 1,500-mu forest ecological garden beside the 5A Gulongzhong scenic area, with 1,100+ plant species, 16 specialty gardens, and combined ticketing with Gulongzhong.
Loo-Loowaard
Loo-Loowaard, near Loo in Duiven, Gelderland, is a presumed Roman auxiliary fort on the Lower Germanic Limes, known only from 1970s dredge finds studied by Wil Kuijpers, plus a 16th-century havezate, rijksmonument 14184.
Lopburi Zoo
Lopburi Zoo (สวนสัตว์ลพบุรี, Sa Kaeo Zoo) is a small military-run municipal zoo in Lopburi, Thailand, founded in 1940 under Phibunsongkhram, restored in 1977, holding about 590 animals, and renamed in 1997 to avoid confusion with Sa Kaeo Province.
Lord Howe Island Group
Lord Howe Island Group: World Heritage-listed volcanic islands and reefs in the Tasman Sea, Australia, inscribed 1982; world's most southerly true coral reef, endemic woodhen and phasmid, 2019 rodent eradication.
Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve
Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer Lore Lindu), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 1977 in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia; its core is Lore Lindu National Park, a 200–2,610 m montane rainforest with endemic wildlife and Bada Valley megaliths.
Lorentz National Park
Lorentz National Park (Taman Nasional Lorentz), a 2.35-million-hectare national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Papua, Indonesia; largest protected area in Southeast Asia, spanning snowcap to sea with Puncak Carstensz and tropical glaciers.
Lorium
Lorium (Lorii, Laurium) was a Roman posting station on the Via Aurelia, 12 miles from Rome, at Castel di Guido; the estate of Antoninus Pius, who was raised there, built a palace, and died there in 161 AD.
Loro Parque
Loro Parque, zoological park in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, founded 1972 by Wolfgang Kiessling; known for parrot breeding, Loro Parque Fundación conservation work, Orca Ocean orcas including Morgan, and American Humane certification.
Los Alerces National Park
Los Alerces National Park (Parque Nacional Los Alerces), a 259,822-hectare park in Chubut, Argentine Patagonia, created in 1937 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, protects ancient alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) forests with trees over 3,600 years old.
Los Ancares Leoneses Biosphere Reserve
Los Ancares Leoneses Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de los Ancares Leoneses), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2006 in northeast León, Spain; about 56,742 ha across four municipalities, Cantabrian mountain ecosystems, and a consortium-based governance model.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM), the city's individual landmark designation under LAAC 22.171: sites, buildings, trees, or structures designated by City Council on Cultural Heritage Commission recommendation, with demolition delays and Mills Act tax incentives.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a Los Angeles stadium built in 1923 as a WWI veterans' memorial. It has hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times.
Los Glaciares National Park
Los Glaciares National Park (Parque Nacional Los Glaciares) is a 726,927-ha park in Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia, created in 1937 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, famed for the Perito Moreno Glacier and the South Patagonian Ice Field.
Los Humedales de Montecristi y la Línea Noroeste
Los Humedales de Montecristi y la Línea Noroeste, Ramsar Site no. 2497, is an 84,322-hectare wetland of international importance in the Dominican Republic's northwest, designated 13 October 2022, with coral reefs, mangroves, sea turtles, and breeding seabirds.
Los Katíos National Park
Los Katíos National Park (Parque Nacional Natural Los Katíos): 72,000-ha Colombian national park in the Darién, created 1973, UNESCO World Heritage site 1994, danger-listed 2009-2015, adjacent to Panama's Darién National Park.
Los Lípez
Los Lípez is a Bolivian Ramsar wetland site (no. 489) in Potosí, formerly Laguna Colorada, extended in 2009 to 1,427,717 ha at 4,200-6,000 m, holding most of the world's James's flamingos.
Los Melones
Los Melones (Ahuehuetitlán) is a small archaeological zone in Texcoco de Mora, State of Mexico, one of the few visitable remnants of the Acolhua capital, traditionally the palace site of Nezahualcóyotl, occupied 600–1521 AD.
Los Toriles
Los Toriles (Ixtlán del Río archaeological zone), Nayarit, Mexico: pre-Hispanic urban center with one of Mesoamerica's few circular temples, dedicated to Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl; shaft-tomb tradition node and copper-route hub; distinct from the Spanish Cueva de los Toriles.
Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve
Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Los Tuxtlas), decreed 1998 in southern Veracruz, Mexico, protects 155,122 ha of the northernmost tropical rainforest in the Americas on volcanic Sierra de Los Tuxtlas; UNESCO MAB site since 2006.
Los Valles de Omaña y Luna Biosphere Reserve
Los Valles de Omaña y Luna Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de los Valles de Omaña y Luna), a UNESCO MAB site in León Province, Spain, designated 2005, rezonified 2019; about 81,162 ha, six municipalities, Cantabrian fauna such as brown bear and capercaillie.
Los Villares (Quintana del Marco)
Los Villares (Quintana del Marco) is a Roman villa site in León, Spain, in the Órbigo vega, discovered in 1899, famed for the Hylas and the Nymphs mosaic, declared BIC in 1996, and listed as endangered heritage.
Los Villares necropolis
Los Villares necropolis: Iberian tumular cemetery at Hoya Gonzalo, Albacete, Spain, with 40 stone tumuli, 106 pit cremations, and the Caballero sculptures, used 6th-4th century BC; distinct from the 5th-6th century AD necropolis at Baños y Mendigo, Murcia.
Los Volcanes Biosphere Reserve
Los Volcanes Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera Los Volcanes) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in central Mexico, designated in 2010 around Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.
Losa
Losa: submerged Gallo-Roman mansio (road station) on the Roman road from Bordeaux to Dax, named in the Antonine Itinerary, 7 leagues from Boïos; now under Lake Sanguinet, France. Not the Sardinian Nuraghe Losa.
Losodica
Losodica is a Roman station named on the Tabula Peutingeriana in Raetia on the Danube road, identified with Munningen south of Oettingen, Bavaria; seven miles from Septemiaci, eleven from Medianis, Barrington Atlas 12 D4.
Lost and destroyed Jewish cemeteries of Eastern Europe
The lost and destroyed Jewish cemeteries of Eastern Europe are burial grounds in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania cleared, built over, or left to disappear during and after World War II.