Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Cerro de Las Ventanas

Cerro de Las Ventanas, an INAH archaeological zone near El Remolino, Juchipila, Zacatecas, Mexico; largest site of the Juchipila Canyon, named for window-like openings in a summit rock-shelter wall, occupied from shaft-tomb times to the Caxcan Postclassic.

Certiae

Certiae (Cersia, Certie, Certinae): Roman auxiliary fort and military vicus at Romita-Brusturi, Sălaj County, Romania, in Dacia Porolissensis on the Napoca-Porolissum road; garrisoned by cohors II Britannorum and cohors VI Thracum, with a tetrapylon at its principia.

Cesernia

Cesernia, also recorded as Ceserina or Cessernia, was a small settlement or road station of ancient Lucania, Italy, placed between Blanda and Buxentum on the Tyrrhenian coast.

Cessati Spiriti

Cessati Spiriti ("the spirits have ceased") names a street, valley, and Republican mausoleum on Rome's Via Latina; the name comes from an inn where 19th-century travelers were robbed by thieves who vanished into the Caffarella reed bed.

Cévennes

Cévennes: mountain region of the southern French Massif Central, home to the Cévennes National Park (created 1970, inhabited core), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1985, and the Causses and Cévennes World Heritage agro-pastoral landscape (2011).

Cévennes National Park

Cévennes National Park (Parc national des Cévennes) is a French national park created in 1970 in Lozère and Gard, with farming treated as part of its heritage.

Ch(e)imo

Ch(e)imo (Greek Χειμώ, Cheimo/Chimo) is an ancient coastal place in Egypt west of Alexandria, a road or coastal station on the Alexandria-Paraetonium route, provisionally identified with el-Bordan; the identification is disputed on distance and longitude grounds.

Chablais UNESCO Global Geopark

Chablais UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc du Chablais), a protected area in Haute-Savoie, France, between Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc; designated 2015, 87,000 ha, 148,800 residents, 245 million years of Alpine geology, managed by SIAC.

Chabris

Chabris is a commune in the Indre department of central France, on the river Cher between Berry, Touraine, and Sologne, identified with the Roman road station Karbris (Gabris).

Chacchoben

Chacchoben, meaning "Place of red corn," is a Maya archaeological site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, whose main structures were built from about 250 AD.

Chacmultun

Chacmultún (Chacmultun), a Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatán, Mexico, near Tekax; name means "red stone hill". Flourished 800–1000 AD, eastern Puuc's main Postclassic city, discovered by Teobert Maler in 1875.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwestern New Mexico, preserves the great houses, kivas, and engineered roads of the Ancestral Puebloan center of Chaco Canyon (c. 850–1250); a 1980 NPS unit and 1987 UNESCO World Heritage site.

Chahar Deh

Chahar Deh (چهار ده, "four villages") is a shared place name for villages in several Iranian provinces and Afghan provinces, and for a Sasanian ruined mansion and fire-temple site in Khuzistan recorded by Aurel Stein in 1935.

chai hkana

chai hkana (چاي خانه) is a casino in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, near Baqubah, at 33.72879° N, 44.65194° E, open 9:00 AM to midnight; its name is the regional word for teahouse.

Chai Kef zoo

Chai Kef (Hebrew: חי-כיף, also written Hai Kef) is a municipal zoo and educational center in Rishon LeZion, Israel, established in 1988 on a 40-dunam site.

Chai Park

Chai Park (חי פארק), also Hai Park, is a zoo and entertainment complex in Kiryat Motzkin, Israel, opened July 2002 by mayor Haim Tzuri; 180 dunam, over 350 animals of 100+ species, EAZA member, with Luna Park and 10,000-seat amphitheater.

Chai Ramon

Chai Ramon (חי רמון, Hai Ramon) is a living desert park in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon, showing about 40 small desert species and a six-habitat botanical garden; now closed to visitors.

Chai-Bar Carmel

Chai-Bar Carmel (חי בר כרמל), also Hai-Bar Carmel, is a 1973 wildlife breeding reserve on Mount Carmel, Israel, breeding Persian fallow deer, roe deer, gazelles, and raptors for reintroduction to the wild, distinct from the desert Hai-Bar Yotvata.

Chalchihuites

Chalchihuites: a pre-Hispanic frontier culture of northwest Zacatecas and southern Durango, Mexico (c. 200–1100 CE), centered on the Alta Vista ceremonial and astronomical site near the Tropic of Cancer, with Teotihuacan links and about 800 pre-Hispanic mines.

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Chalchuapa

Chalchuapa is a town and archaeological zone in the Santa Ana department of western El Salvador, with at least 3,200 years of continuous human occupation.

Chalkotheke

Chalkotheke (Greek "bronze store"), a building on the Athenian Acropolis storing Athena's bronze dedications and, by the late 4th century BC, an arsenal; known from 4th-century inventory inscriptions and foundations excavated 1888–1889.

Chamahzi Mumah

Chamahzi Mumah (چم ژی مومه) is an Iron Age III graveyard in Luristan, Iran, 8th-7th century BC, excavated 1974-75 under Louis Vanden Berghe; 81 tombs with pottery, bronze, and iron finds, published by Haerinck and Overlaet in 1998.

Chambered cairn

Chambered cairns are Neolithic burial monuments with a stone chamber inside a stone mound, common in Scotland (over 600) and Atlantic Europe; types include Clyde, Orkney-Cromarty, and Maeshowe passage graves, used for communal burial from about 3700 cal BC.

Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve

Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Chamela-Cuixmala), a 13,142-hectare protected tropical dry forest and wetland area on Jalisco's Pacific coast, Mexico, decreed 30 December 1993, UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2006, co-managed by UNAM and the Cuixmala Ecological Foundation.

Chamkar Pring Amusement Park

Chamkar Pring Amusement Park (សួនចំការព្រីង) is a theme park in Phnom Penh Thmei, Saensokh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, owned by Okhna Try Heng, known for rides, evening crowds, and a 2014 roller coaster derailment that injured four.

Champ de Mars

Champ de Mars: large Paris 7th-arrondissement park between the Eiffel Tower and École Militaire, over 24 hectares; military drill ground from 1765, Festival of the Federation 1790, massacre 1791, park by Formigé, Paris 2024 venue.

Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars

Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars (Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 4 July 2015 in Marne, France: three serial ensembles of historic vineyards, Saint-Nicaise Hill crayères and Avenue de Champagne, criteria iii, iv, vi.