Chaco Canyon

Once a major Ancestral Puebloan population center, the ruins of New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park are unlike any other in North America. Click an image below to enlarge.

I am shown overlooking the ruins of Pueblo Bonito, the largest and most famous of the Chacoan great houses at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM.
The rock walls of New Mexico's Chaco Canyon loom behind the ruins of Hungo Pavi, a great house built by the Ancestral Puebloans sometime between 1000-1250 CE.
The ruins of Chetro Ketl are the remnants of the second largest Chacoan great house at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in remote northwestern New Mexico.
The ruins of Pueblo del Arroyo are shown at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM. Chaco Canyon was a major regional center of the Ancestral Puebloans.
Fajada Butte rises from the floor of Chaco Canyon in remote northwest New Mexico. The landmark is south of Chaco Culture National Historical Park's observatory.
Chetro Ketl was a Chacoan great house at Chaco Canyon, one of the most important Native American population centers in what is now the Southwestern United States.

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