Una Vida, Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Name: Una Vida
Address: Chaco Culture National Historical Park, United States

#7 among attractions in Chaco Culture National Historical Park

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Una Vida, Chaco Culture National Historical Park

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Una Vida is an archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. According to tree rings surrounding the site, its construction began around 800 AD, at the same time as Pueblo Bonito, and it is one of the three earliest Chacoan Ancestral Puebloan great houses. Comprising at least two stories and 160 rooms, it shares an arc or D-shaped design with its contemporaries, Peñasco Blanco and Pueblo Bonito, but has a unique "dog leg" addition made necessary by topography. It is located in one of the canyon's major side drainages, near Gallo Wash, and was massively expanded after 930 AD. ()

Coordinates: 36°2'1"N, 107°54'43"W

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Una Vida – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Bonito, Fajada Butte, Casa Rinconada.

3 miNW
Archaeological site, Native American architecture, Historical place
Chetro Ketl, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
77 min walk • Chetro Ketl is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States.
3.4 miNW
Archaeological site, Native American architecture, Vernacular architecture
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
86 min walk • Pueblo Bonito is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
1 miS
Mountain
Fajada Butte, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
26 min walk • Fajada Butte is a butte in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwest New Mexico. Fajada Butte rises 135 meters above the canyon floor.
3.1 miNW
Archaeological site, Native American architecture
Casa Rinconada, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
78 min walk • Casa Rinconada is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site located atop a ridge adjacent to a small rincon across from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northwestern New Mexico, United States.
1.5 miNW
Archaeological site
Hungo Pavi, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
40 min walk • Hungo Pavi is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico, United States. A set of ruins located just 1 mile from the ruins of Una Vida, Hungo Pavi measured 872 feet in circumference.
4.4 miNW
Archaeological site
Casa Chiquita, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
112 min walk • Casa Chiquita is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico, United States.
1.2 miE
Archaeological site
Gallo Cliff Dwelling, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
31 min walk • Gallo Cliff Dwelling is a pair of Ancestral Puebloan room blocks that lie under a cliff in Gallo Canyon, New Mexico.
3.6 miNW
Native American architecture
Pueblo del Arroyo, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
91 min walk • Pueblo del Arroyo is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in New Mexico, United States.
2.8 miNW
Archaeological site,
Kin Ya'a, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
72 min walk • Kin Ya'a is a Chacoan great house and the center of a significant Ancestral Puebloan outlier community. It is located near Crownpoint, New Mexico on the Dutton Plateau, 25 miles south of Chaco Canyon.
2 miSE
Mountain
Chacra Mesa, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
53 min walk • The Chacra Mesa is a high mesa massif composing the southwestern flank of Chaco Canyon, a region that is notable for its rich collection of Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites.