TEHRAN – The governor of Paveh has said that the western county needs to develop a comprehensive tourism plan to boost tourism in the region, IRNA reported on Tuesday.

A comprehensive tourism plan needs to be formulated for Paveh county as a part of the UNESCO-designated Uramanat, Ardeshir Rostami said.

Having Uramant recognized as a World Heritage site would contribute to the prosperity of tourism in the cities and regions it consists of, including Paveh, the official added.

To make the most of this capacity, planning for developing tourism infrastructure seems necessary, he mentioned.

Stretched on the slopes of Sarvabad county at the heart of the Zagros Mountains and shared between the provinces of Kordestan and Kermanshah in western Iran, the Uramanat cultural landscape embraces hundreds of villages, 106,000 hectares of land and 303,000 hectares of surrounding properties.

Archaeological findings dating back about 40,000 years, caves and rock shelters, ancient paths and was along the valleys, motifs and inscriptions, cemeteries, mounds, castles, settlements, and other historical evidence attest to the continuity of life in the Uramanat region from the Paleolithic to the present time.

According to the UN body, Uramanat is an exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition of the semi-nomadic agropastoral way of life of the Hawrami people, a Kurdish tribe that has resided in the Zagros Mountains for millennia. This outstanding cultural tradition is manifested in the ancestral practices of transhumance, the mode of seasonal living in Havars, steep-slope terraced agriculture, soil and water management, traditional knowledge for planning and constructing steeply terraced villages, and rich diversity of intangible heritage, all reflecting harmonious co-existence with nature.

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