# unesco-heritage-mcp-server [Health: Active]

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**Repository:** https://github.com/cyanheads/unesco-heritage-mcp-server  
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## Description
Search UNESCO World Heritage sites, intangible heritage, biosphere reserves, and Global Geoparks.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **unesco_search_sites** — Search World Heritage sites by keyword, country, category, region, criteria, inscription years, Danger-list or transboundary status, or distance from a point
- **unesco_get_site** — Fetch a site's full record: statement of Outstanding Universal Value, criteria with meanings, component parts, coordinates, and image credit
- **unesco_search_intangible_heritage** — Search the three intangible heritage lists by keyword, country, list, inscription years, multinational status, or linked World Heritage site
- **unesco_get_intangible_heritage_element** — Fetch an element's full record: description, list, countries, concept terms, linked sites, and image credit
- **unesco_search_biosphere_reserves** — Search biosphere reserves by keyword, country, region, MAB regional network, designation years, transboundary or SIDS status, or distance from a point
- **unesco_get_biosphere_reserve** — Fetch a reserve's full record: ecological and socio-economic profile, zoned areas and population, review years, and coordinates
- **unesco_search_geoparks** — Search UNESCO Global Geoparks by keyword, country, designation years, transnational status, or distance from a point
- **unesco_get_geopark** — Fetch a geopark's full record: introduction, description, account of sustaining local communities, recorded area and population, and coordinates
- **unesco_list_reference** — Decode criteria, countries (name to ISO code), regions, intangible heritage lists, and MAB networks; report dataset coverage and data dates

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Install path detected from listing signals. Uses `bunx` (confidence: high):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "unesco-heritage-mcp-server": {
    "command": "bunx",
    "args": ["@cyanheads/unesco-heritage-mcp-server@latest"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation

## What unesco-heritage-mcp-server MCP server does

The unesco-heritage-mcp-server MCP server gives AI clients access to four UNESCO Data Hub datasets: the World Heritage List, the Intangible Cultural Heritage lists, the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, and UNESCO Global Geoparks. It supports both discovery and record retrieval, so an agent can first narrow a collection with filters and then request the complete entry.

World Heritage searches can include sites on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Intangible heritage searches cover the Representative List, Urgent Safeguarding List, and Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. Biosphere reserve and geopark searches support location-based matching, while World Heritage searches can match a representative point or component part.

## How it works

The package can run as a STDIO process or as a Streamable HTTP server. The repository also publishes a hosted MCP endpoint at `https://unesco-heritage.caseyjhand.com/mcp`. No API key is required. A client can connect to the local process or hosted endpoint and invoke tools using structured parameters.

Search results are paginated, with up to 50 entries per page and a continuation cursor. Several searches return facets across the full result set, such as countries, regions, categories, lists, networks, or status values. Proximity searches accept latitude, longitude, and a radius of up to 5,000 kilometers.

Four resources mirror the record tools: `unesco://site/{id_no}`, `unesco://intangible-heritage/{ich_ref}`, `unesco://biosphere-reserve/{mab_id}`, and `unesco://geopark/{ugg_id}`.

## Tools and capabilities

The nine tools include:

- `unesco_search_sites` and `unesco_get_site` for World Heritage discovery and full records.
- `unesco_search_intangible_heritage` and `unesco_get_intangible_heritage_element` for intangible heritage elements.
- `unesco_search_biosphere_reserves` and `unesco_get_biosphere_reserve` for biosphere reserve data.
- `unesco_search_geoparks` and `unesco_get_geopark` for UNESCO Global Geoparks.
- `unesco_list_reference` for criteria, country codes, regions, heritage lists, MAB networks, dataset coverage, and data dates.

Full records can include descriptions, coordinates, inscription or designation history, countries, criteria, component parts, areas, populations, linked heritage sites, images, and source-page details. The exact fields depend on the dataset.

## Limitations and notes

The server exposes recorded UNESCO data; some values require interpretation. For example, biosphere-reserve zone totals can differ from recorded totals, and a population value of zero may mean either no population or an unreported value. Transboundary biosphere reserves can appear once for each participating country, using separate identifiers.

World Heritage site lookups accept an identifier, digit string, or UNESCO page URL. Intangible heritage lookups accept an identifier or UNESCO page URL. Unknown identifiers return dataset-specific not-found errors. Search fields are dataset-specific: biosphere reserves and geoparks do not provide a dedicated biome or landform field, so descriptive words must be searched through text.

The unesco-heritage-mcp-server MCP server is intended for UNESCO-focused lookup and retrieval rather than general geographic or tourism data. Its documented client installation links cover Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code.

_Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/unesco-heritage-mcp-server/readme_