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Pueblo Bonito is the largest great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Examination of pack rat middens revealed that at the time that Pueblo Bonito was built, Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as ponderosa pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first-floor ...
Google Street View Camera Car in Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo on January 7, 2010. In South America, Google Street View is available in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. This article covers all of South America. For Central America and the Caribbean, see Google Street View in North America.
Pueblo Bonito, largest of the great houses, abuts the foot of Chaco Canyon's northern rim. Aerial view of Pueblo Bonito. Casa Rinconada, isolated from the other central sites, sits to the south side of Chaco Wash, adjacent to a Chacoan road leading to a set of steep stairs that reached the top of Chacra Mesa. Its sole kiva stands alone, with no ...
Programme logo. The Programa Pueblos Mágicos (Spanish: [pweβloˈmaxiko] ⓘ; "Magical Towns Programme") is an initiative led by Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism, with support from other federal agencies, to promote a series of towns around the country that offer visitors "cultural richness, historical relevance, cuisine, art crafts, and great hospitality".
Pueblo Bonito, in Chaco Canyon. A great house is a large, multi-storied Ancestral Puebloan structure; they were built between 850 and 1150. Whereas the term "great house" typically refers to structures in Chaco Canyon, they are also found in more northerly locations in the San Juan Basin, including the Mesa Verde region.
A map of ancestral Pueblo cultures. Hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings are found across the American Southwest.With almost all constructed well before 1492 CE, these Puebloan towns and villages are located throughout the geography of the Southwest.
Casa Rinconada is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site located atop a ridge adjacent to a small rincon across from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northwestern New Mexico, United States. The Ancestral Puebloan great kiva, Casa Rinconada.
Wetherill and his wife Marietta are buried in the small cemetery west of Pueblo Bonito along with several Navajos. The cemetery lies just over a hundred meters west of Bonito behind a wooden fence. Richard Wetherill's heirs donated a large collection of artifacts to the University of New Mexico in 1954.