Chaco Culture

World Heritage

USA

🎧 Listen to Introduction

For more than 2,000 years, the Pueblo people have inhabited a large area of the southwestern United States. Chaco Canyon was the main center of the Ancestral Pueblo culture from 850 to 1250 AD and the center of ceremonial, trade, and political activity in the prehistoric Four Corners region. Chaco is known for its magnificent public and ceremonial buildings and unique architecture—it features an ancient urban ceremonial center unlike anything built before or since. In addition to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the World Heritage Site includes Aztec Ruins National Monument and several smaller Chaco sites managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Anasazi sites in the Southwest

Aerial view of Pueblo Bonito

Major Chacoan sites within park margins

Around 200,000 pieces of turquoise have been excavated from the ruins at Chaco Canyon. These turquoi...

Chaco Prehistoric Stairway, Chaco National Cultural Historic Park, NM

Anasazi sites in the Southwest

Great kiva of Chetro Ketl

Chaco Canyon Ancestral Puebloan lapidary tool kit, NPS

Pueblo Bonito, largest of the great houses, abuts the foot of Chaco Canyon's northern rim

A ceramic bowl excavated from Pueblo Alto, dating from AD 1030 to 1200

Summer thunderstorms over Fajada Butte and the Fajada Gap, near the southwestern rim of Chaco Canyon...

Aerial park overview

Prehistoric roads and great houses in the San Juan Basin, superimposed on a map showing modern roads...

Hungo Pavi, near the center of Chaco Canyon. A staircase leads out of the complex

NPS site maps of the major ruins of Chaco Canyon

Interior of Wijiji, an outlier site occupied between AD 1100 and 1150

Fajada Butte, Chaco averages three or four snowstorms a winter

Show more pictures

Poem of the heritage generated by AI

Start Generation

Intangible culture related to the heritage

China tourist attractions related to the heritage

World heritage related to the heritage

Show more related heritage

Information extracted from Wikidata

heritage designation	Kingdom of Zimbabwe
native label	Chaco Culture National Historical Park
elevation above sea level	6644
area	137.5
Park Alpha Code	CHCU
Wolfram Language entity code	Entity["Park", "ChacoCultureNationalHistoricalPark::8p724"]
Atlas Obscura identifier	chaco-culture-national-historical-park
uses	7564221-9
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chaco%20Canyon%20Chetro%20Ketl%20great%20kiva%20plaza%20NPS.jpg
operator	National Park Service
ISNI	0000 0004 0473 9814
executive body	Chaco Culture National Historical Park
U.S. National Archives Identifier	10046195
volume as quantity	chaco-culture-national-historical-park
fiscal/tax revenue	CHCU
Wolfram Language entity code	Entity["Park", "ChacoCultureNationalHistoricalPark::8p724"]
ELSTAT geographical code	chaco-culture-national-historical-park
number of rooms	lccn-n2009019012
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/03qh1c
Commons category	Chaco Culture National Historical Park
has part	Kin Ya'a
has part	Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Contiguous unit
inception	1980-12-19T00:00:00Z
coordinate location	Point(-107.97 36.06)
NRHP reference number	66000895
topic's main category	Category:Chaco Culture National Historical Park
page banner	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chacocanyon%20pueblobonito%20banner.jpg
U.S. National Archives Identifier	10046195
start time	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

heritage designation	National Register of Historic Places listed place
start time	1966-10-15T00:00:00Z
criterion used	Porto
criterion used	C
criterion used	D
named as	Chaco Culture National Historical Park
subject has role	Harz District
start time	1907-03-11T00:00:00Z
end time	1980-12-19T00:00:00Z
instance of	National Historical Park
start time	1980-12-19T00:00:00Z
official website	https://www.nps.gov/chcu/index.htm
language of work or name	English
heritage designation	Category:Views of Pienza
part of	Chaco Culture World Heritage Site
start time	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z