Casa Chiquita is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico

New Mexico

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. Located near the old north entrance to the Canyon, its layout features a smaller profile with a square block of rooms surrounding a central elevated round room. It also lacked the open plazas and separate kivas of its predecessors. Larger, squarer blocks of stone were used in the masonry; its kivas were designed in the northern Mesa Verdean tradition. Its ruins now lie within Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash...

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External links

• http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/chaco/tour/chaq.htm