Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat
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How it came to be
Hawraman/Uramanat is a remote mountain region in the heart of the Zagros along Iran's western border. The Hawrami, an agro-pastoral Kurdish people, have lived here since about 3000 BCE. The property has two parts: the Central-Eastern Valley (Zhaverud and Takht) in Kurdistan Province and the Western Valley (Lahun) in Kermanshah Province.
With little productive land on steep slopes, people stacked their houses in tiers, grew orchards on dry-stone terraces, kept livestock and moved between lowland and highland with the seasons. Stone tools, caves and rock shelters, mounds, permanent and temporary settlements, workshops, cemeteries, roads and castles record an unbroken presence. The 12 villages in the property show how the Hawrami answered the scarcity of land over thousands of years.
Terraced groves of walnut and pomegranate have been kept and inherited for generations, and the Pir Shalyar ceremony is held every year in the village of Hawraman Takht. The region was added to Iran's Tentative List on 9 August 2007 and inscribed as a World Heritage site on 27 July 2021, at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee.
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