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The meaning of, "Chetro Ketl" has been lost. Ruins located in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Chipiinuinge: Tewa Canones Ruins. Name means "house at the pointed peak". Cochiti: Keres: Cochiti: Great house; cliff dwellings Active with ruins on-site. Home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. Canador Peak: Hohokam Trincheras ...
Rock Peak is located 22 miles (35 km) south of Libby, Montana, in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, on land managed by Kaniksu National Forest. [2] It is set west of the Continental Divide in the Cabinet Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains . [ 1 ]
Rock type(s) granite and schist The Bradshaw Mountains are a mountain range in central Arizona , United States, named for brothers Isaac and William D. Bradshaw after their deaths, having been formerly known in English as the Silver Mountain Range.
El Morro National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States.Located on an ancient east–west trail in the western part of the state, the monument preserves the remains of a large prehistoric pueblo atop a great sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base, which subsequently became a landmark where over the centuries explorers and travelers have ...
Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level.
Rock art and ruins, at least 800 years old, have been found in Cataract Canyon. [2] Because of the remote location, it was some time before European explorers and settlers reached the area. The Colorado River and its canyons were more of an obstacle to travel than a destination to be explored.
An Ancestral Puebloan long-distance communication system that utilized smoke and mirrors existed in the region, and direct lines of sight have been established between Huérfano Mountain, Chimney Rock Pueblo, and the Chacoan great house Pueblo Alto. Messages could have been relayed between the three points within minutes. [3]
Castle Rock is the prominence to the left of center. Although not necessarily recorded on United States Geological Survey maps, several historically named features are part of South Table Mountain: Castle Rock , originally known as Table Rock , a prominent butte at northwest end