Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon is a UNESCO World Heritage site in United States, the canyon in north-western New Mexico where Ancestral Puebloan builders raised great houses such as Pueblo Bonito between about 850 and 1150 CE, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1987 as Chaco Culture. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-175635 at 36.06378, -107.97083 (36°03'49.6"N 107°58'15.0"W).
The catalogue holds this record under the name Chaco Culture World Heritage Site. There are 4 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 6 within 25 km and 9 within 50 km. The great houses of the canyon floor are catalogued one by one: Kin Kletso 0.2 km away, Pueblo Bonito 0.9 km to the east, the great kiva of Casa Rinconada 1.4 km away across the wash, and Tsin Kletzin on the mesa to the south. Pierre's site and Halfway House, 20 and 36 km out, are way stations on the Great North Road. A sparse neighbourhood in the catalogue is not evidence of an empty landscape; a low count here may mean the record is thin rather than the ground is.
Open on the mapThe record
| Pyramason ID | PYR-175635 |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Classified as | UNESCO World Heritage site |
| Coordinates | 36.06378, -107.97083 |
| 36°03'49.6"N 107°58'15.0"W | |
| Sites within 25 km | 6 |
| Sites within 50 km | 9 |
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What is around it
- Kin Kletso0.2 km
- Pueblo Bonito0.9 km
- Casa Rinconada1.4 km
- Tsin Kletzin3.3 km
- Kin Bineola16.7 km
- Pierre's site20.0 km
- Pueblo Pintado33.6 km
- Halfway House35.9 km
- Kin Ya'a44.9 km
Updates from the atlas
Further reading
English Wikipedia · UNESCO World Heritage List: Chaco Culture
Nearby on the atlas
- Pueblo Bonito0.9 km
- All catalogued pages in United Statescountry hub
Distances are great-circle, from the coordinates Pyramason holds for each site.