马尔佩洛岛动植物保护区

马尔佩洛岛动植物保护区距哥伦比亚海岸约506公里，包括马尔佩洛岛（350公顷）和周围海洋环境（857 150公顷）。这一巨大的海洋公园是热带东太平洋最大的禁渔区，为国际濒危海洋生物提供了重要的栖息地，是多种主要食物的来源，因而滋养了大量各种海洋生物。这里尤其是鲨鱼、石斑鱼和尖嘴鱼的聚居区，还是世界上为数不多的几个确定可以看见深水短鼻粗齿鲨的地方。陡峭的崖壁与自然景观瑰丽多彩的洞穴使这里成为公认的世界顶级跳水胜地之一。深邃的海水为数量巨大的大型肉食动物和浮游生物提供了安宁的生存环境，使它们保持着自然的行为方式。

Located some 506 km off the coast of Colombia, the site includes Malpelo island (350 ha) and the surrounding marine environment (857,150 ha). This vast marine park, the largest no-fishing zone in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, provides a critical habitat for internationally threatened marine species, and is a major source of nutrients resulting in large aggregations of marine biodiversity. It is in particular a ‘reservoir' for sharks, giant grouper and billfish and is one of the few places in the world where sightings of the short-nosed ragged-toothed shark, a deepwater shark, have been confirmed. Widely recognized as one of the top diving sites in the world, due to the presence of steep walls and caves of outstanding natural beauty, these deep waters support important populations of large predators and pelagic species (e.g. aggregations of over 200 hammerhead sharks and over 1,000 silky sharks, whale sharks and tuna have been recorded) in an undisturbed environment where they maintain natural behavioural patterns.

国别	哥伦比亚 Colombia
中文名称	马尔佩洛岛动植物保护区
英文名称	Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
遗产类别	自然遗产
登录年份	2006
选入标准	(vii)(ix)