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Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km 2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest .
Tsankawi is a detached portion of Bandelier National Monument near White Rock, New Mexico. It is accessible from a roadside parking area, just north of the intersection of East Jemez Road and State Road 4. A self-guided 1.5-mile loop trail provides access to numerous unexcavated ruins, caves carved into soft tuff, and petroglyphs. [1]
The wilderness area is around 5,200 acres (2,100 ha) on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest. The wilderness area borders the Bandelier Wilderness in Bandelier National Monument. [4] The Dome Wilderness is easily accessible from Los Alamos, New Mexico, by paved and gravel roads.
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 ...
Landmark name Image Date established [5] Location County Description; 1: Aztec Ruins National Monument: January 24, 1923: Aztec: San Juan: Preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico 2: Bandelier National Monument: February 11, 1916: Santa Fe: Sandoval and Los Alamos
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.
The caldera is segregated by these structures and its rim into multiple lush grass valleys (valles in Spanish, hence the name). The western part of the Valles Caldera is underlain by a seismic low-velocity zone with an area of 10 by 14 kilometers (6.2 by 8.7 mi) and extending to depths of 5 to 15.5 kilometers (3.1 to 9.6 mi).
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