Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest.[wikipedia] The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States.
| Address PO Box 220 Nageezi, NM 87037 |
| Contacts (505) 786-7014 |
Basic Info
| Area 33,977.8 acres (137.50 km2) |
| Coordinates 36°04โฒN 107°58โฒW๏ปฟ / ๏ปฟ36.06°N 107.96°W๏ปฟ / 36.06; -107.96 |
| Location San Juan County and McKinley County, New Mexico, US |
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The Center of an Ancient World
Today the massive buildings of the Ancestral Puebloan people still testify to the organizational and engineering abilities not seen anywhere else in the American Southwest. For a deeper contact with the canyon that was central to thousands of people between 850 and 1250 CE, come and explore Chaco through
The Center of Chacoan Culture
The Center of Chacoan Culture For all the wild beauty of Chaco Canyon's high-desert landscape, its long winters, short growing seasons, and marginal rainfall create an unlikely place for a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture to take root and flourish. Yet this valley was the center of a thriving
