
Article 7:
Bellow mentioned goods under the following categories are declared to be relevant to the State Cultural Patrimony:
a) Furniture and real estate archeological monuments, such as: objects made
of ceramic, metal, stone or any other material pertaining to the pre-Hispanic and
colonial epochs; ruins of fortifications, buildings, cemeteries and archeological
beds in general; as well as mortal remains, or flora and fauna, related with the
same epochs;
b) Churches, monasteries, chapels and other buildings that have been built
during the Colony; paintings, sculptures, carvings, objects of gold work, ceramic,
etc., pertaining to the same epoch;
c) Antique handwritings and incunabula printings, editions of rare books, maps
and other important documents;
d) Objects and documents that had pertained or were related to precursors
and procerus of the National Independence or that were owned by personages of
singular relevance for the Ecuadorian History;
e) Coins, bank bills, signs, medals and all other objects, made in the country
or abroad in any epoch of its History, which could be of national numismatic
interest;
f) Seals, postage stamps and all other objects of national philatelic interest
that could be produced in the Country or abroad and in any epoch;
g) Ethnographic objects having scientific, historic or artistic value, pertaining
to the Ethnographic Patrimony;
h) Objects or cultural goods produced by laureate contemporary artists will be
considered goods pertaining to the State Cultural Patrimony upon their passing
away and, in life, those which have been subjected to national reward, a well as
those that had been performed within thirty or more years;
I) Works of the nature, whose characteristics or values had been remarked by
the intervention of human beings or having scientific interests for the study of
flora, fauna and paleontology; and,
j) In general, all goods and production that is not contained in former literals
and that were products of the Cultural State Patrimony in the past and in present
times and that due to their artistic, scientific or historic merit have been declared
by the Institute as goods pertaining to Cultural Patrimony that were under State
care, the care of religious institutions or pertaining to juridical or natural persons.
In the case of real estate, the good itself, its environment and landscape
necessary to furnish it with adequate visibility, will be considered as part of the
State Cultural Patrimony; and this shall keep its environmental and integrity
conditions under which it was built. Delimitation of this area of influence will be
responsibility of the Institute of Cultural Patrimony.