Looking down on Chaco Canyon from the mesa top

Chaco Canyon is in a remote part of northwestern New Mexico, reached by 20 miles of primitive dirt roads. The geology is as impressive as the ruins, which date to the year 800. The great house ruins of Pueblo Bonito, and other associated ruins in and around Chaco Canyon once housed hosted or housed up to thousands of Ancestral Puebloan people.

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