It is understood as such the set of tangible and intangible goods that constitute the provincial heritage and those that are created and that society gives them a special historical, scientific, symbolic or aesthetic importance. It also has the function of designing strategies so that the conservation, valuation and defense of Cultural Heritage is a collective purpose and acts in accordance with educational, social and municipal institutions.

Anthropological

It is the set of goods and expressions of man, his intangible cultural goods and representations of social memory.

Historical

It is made up of all those tangible or intangible elements and manifestations produced by societies over time, the result of a historical process where the reproduction of ideas and material become factors that identify and differentiate a country or region.

Folk Cultural Heritage

They are the goods that account for an identity rooted in the past, with memory in the present, reinterpreted by successive generations, which have to do with daily knowledge, social frameworks and daily coexistence. These assets speak, for example, of the uniqueness of certain trades, music, dances, beliefs, places, food, artistic expressions, rituals with a certain material value and a strong symbolic charge.

They are built historically, as a result of social interactions, and give a special sense of belonging and identity to the society that originated them.

The material manages to show itself in all its richness while revealing its intangible folkloric soul. For its part, the intangible becomes closer and learnable as long as it is expressed through the support of the material.

Living Cultural heritage

They are those people or social groups that, due to their contribution to oral traditions, arts, music, festive events, rites, social practices, knowledge and uses related to nature, deserve to be considered as members of the Living Cultural Heritage.

Architectural and Urbanistic

It is the set of real estate, located in the province of Salta, that were declared of architectural and/or urban interest, regardless of their legal regime and ownership, that in their tangible or intangible, material or symbolic aspects or due to their intrinsic significance and /or conventionally attributed, define the identity and collective memory of its inhabitants.

Artistic

It is the part of the cultural heritage and historical heritage that is manifested in works of art. Much of the World Heritage or World Heritage, defined by UNESCO, consists of artistic heritage.

Natural heritage

They are the natural monuments constituted by physical and biological formations or by groups of those formations; geological and physiographic formations and strictly delimited areas constituting the habitat of endangered animal and plant species, natural sites or strictly delimited natural areas, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or of natural beauty.