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🌳 Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands: Churia

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🌳 Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands: Churia
UNESCO World Heritage Site and ancient temperate rainforest in Georgia


🕐 2 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 13:45

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📋 Fast Facts
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site (serial property, inscribed 2021)
  • Located in Guria region along Georgia's eastern Black Sea coast
  • One of the world's oldest and most humid temperate broadleaf rainforests, dating to the Tertiary period
  • Covers lowland forests, peatlands, and wetlands in the Colchic Depression

Churia is a core zone of the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving ...

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