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Una Vida is an archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.According to tree rings surrounding the site, its construction began around 800 AD, at the same time as Pueblo Bonito, [1] and it is one of the three earliest Chacoan Ancestral Puebloan great houses.
Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico.It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
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. [2]
The park features Ancestral Puebloan ruins, a museum, and artifacts that provide a detailed view of how the Ancestral Puebloan lived and worked. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The northernmost spur of the byway extends to Monticello, Utah .
A key site on the byway are the ruins at Chaco Canyon, which was the "ceremonial center" for puebloan people at that and outlying pueblos between 850 and 1250 A.D. Other key sites are the El Morro National Monument and El Malpais National Monument. [4] A great portion of the land in northwestern New Mexico belongs to the Navajo Nation. [5]
Other Ancient Pueblo people from the area migrated south to Arizona and New Mexico, ancestors to modern pueblo people such as the Hopi and Zuni. [15] Modern Pueblo people are located on reservations primarily in New Mexico, but some in Arizona. The 60,000 people's pueblos and reservations reside in three geographic areas:
New Mexico: $25 per-vehicle fees currently waived White Sands National Park: New Mexico: $25 per-vehicle Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site: New York: $20 per-person 2-day pass; passes required only for the house and presidential library. Top Cottage requires a separate $10 fee per-person. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan New Mexico Ruins Site map of Halfway House Outlier, with Great North Road: Hawikuh: Zuni Zuni: Ruins located on the Zuni Indian Reservation in the Zuni-Cibola Complex and that is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Hogback Outlier: Mountainair: 50 miles northwest of Chaco Culture National Historical Park