Church of San Juan Bautista, Dalcahue

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Church of San Juan Bautista de San Juan de Coquihuil (Churches of Chiloé)
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
San Juan's Church facade
Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iii
Reference	971-013
UNESCO region	Latin America and Caribbean
Coordinates	42°20′06″S 73°30′15″W / 42.335065°S 73.504249°W
Inscription history
Inscription	2000 (24th Session)
Location of Church of San Juan Bautista, Dalcahue in Chiloé.

The Church of San Juan Bautista de San Juan de Coquihuil —Spanish: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista de San Juan de Coquihuil— is a Roman Catholic church located in the Chilean hamlet of San Juan, commune of Dalcahue in Chiloé Island. Commonly referred to as «Church of San Juan» —Spanish: Iglesia de San Juan—, is within the Diocese of Ancud; its construction was finished around 1887.^[1]

This church is one of the 16 traditional Chiloé wooden churches —built in the 18th and 19th centuries— that were declared as a World Heritage site under «Churches of Chiloé»'s denomination^[2] because of their unique form of wooden architecture known as the «Chilota School of Religious Architecture on Wood».^[1][3]

References

1. Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (2003). Postulación de las iglesias de Chiloé para su inclusión en la lista del patrimonio mundial ante la UNESCO (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago of Chile: Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales. ISBN 956-7953-00-7.
2. UNESCO (2001-01-16). "Convention concerning the protection of the world cultura and natural heritage" (PDF). World Heritage Committee, Twenty-fourth session, Cairns, Australia. Retrieved 2011-10-09. Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
3. Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo (2005). Arte latinoamericano del siglo XX: otras historias de la historia (in Spanish). Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. p. 378. ISBN 978-84-7733-792-8.