World Heritage Identification Number: 1415
World Heritage since: 2018
Category: Mixed Cultural Heritage and Natural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇨🇦 Canada
Continent: Americas
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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Pimachiowin Aki: A Cultural Landscape of Indigenous Significance
Pimachiowin Aki, meaning 'The Land That Gives Life', is a vast and pristine wilderness straddling the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario in Canada. This UNESCO World Heritage Site spans over 29,000 square kilometers, encompassing the traditional territories of four Anishinaabe First Nations communities – Poplar River First Nation, Little Grand Rapids First Nation, Pauingassi First Nation, and Bloodvein First Nation.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
Pimachiowin Aki ('The Land That Gives Life') is a landscape of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and boreal forest. It forms part of the ancestral home of the Anishinaabeg, an indigenous people living from fishing, hunting and gathering. The site encompasses the traditional lands of four Anishinaabeg communities (Bloodvein River, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi and Poplar River). It is an exceptional example of the cultural tradition of Ji-ganawendamang Gidakiiminaan ('keeping the land'), which consists of honouring the gifts of the Creator, respecting all forms of life, and maintaining harmonious relations with others. A complex network of livelihood sites, habitation sites, travel routes and ceremonial sites, often linked by waterways, provides testimony to this ancient and continuing tradition.
Encyclopedia Record: Pimachiowin Aki
Pimachiowin Aki is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the boreal forest that covers parts of Manitoba and Ontario. The site is more than 29,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi) in area, and includes ancestral lands of four First Nations including Poplar River First Nation, Little Grand Rapids First Nation, Pauingassi First Nation, and Bloodvein First Nation. The area also includes the Manitoba Provincial Wilderness Park of Atikaki Provincial Park and the Ontario Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. The World Heritage Site's original proposal started with the signing of the Protected Areas and First Nation Resource Stewardship Accord in 2002. The name means land that gives life in Ojibwe.Additional Site Details
Area: 2,904,000 hectares
(vi) — Directly associated with events or living traditions
(ix) — Outstanding example representing ecological and biological processes
Coordinates: 51.8264166667 , -95.4112777778
