Unesco’s  World Heritage Committee, made up of 21 countries,  has rejected, the inclusion of the Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panama in the recognized World Heritage List.

Panama wanted  to expand its sites  listed  in the World Heritage of Humanity -which currently includes the old town of Panama Viejo and the fortifications of Portobelo-San Lorenzo-  by adding the Camino de Cruces and Camino del Real, two historic routes that connected the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean during the colonial era, before the construction of the transisthmian railway and the Canal.

The Heritage Committee  decided, by consensus, that the Panamanian proposal did not have enough characteristics to be inscribed in the World Heritage List.

Source: Panama Newsroom