Peñasco Blanco, Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Name: Peñasco Blanco
Address: Chaco Culture National Historical Park, United States

#8 among attractions in Chaco Culture National Historical Park

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Peñasco Blanco, Chaco Culture National Historical Park

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Peñasco Blanco is a Chacoan Ancestral Puebloan great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, a canyon in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The pueblo consists of an arc-shaped room block, part of an oval enclosing a plaza and great kiva, along with two great kivas outside the great house. The pueblo was built atop the canyon's southern rim to the northwest of the great houses in the main section of the canyon. ()

Coordinates: 36°4'54"N, 108°0'11"W

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Peñasco Blanco – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

3.1 miSE
Archaeological site, Native American architecture, Historical place
Chetro Ketl, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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Archaeological site, Native American architecture, Vernacular architecture
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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6.8 miSE
Mountain
Fajada Butte, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
173 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 miSE
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.
4.6 miSE
Archaeological site
Hungo Pavi, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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1.7 miSE
Archaeological site
Casa Chiquita, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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2.5 miSE
Native American architecture
Pueblo del Arroyo, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
64 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.
3.3 miSE
Archaeological site,
Kin Ya'a, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
85 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.