Chaco Wash
The Chaco Wash is an arroyo cutting through Chaco Canyon, which is located in northwestern New Mexico on the Colorado Plateau. Another arroyo known as Escavada Wash is a tributary that feeds in from the northeast, near the western end of Chaco Canyon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: arroyo in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
- Also known as: “Chaco Arroyo”, “Chaco River”, and “North Fork Chaco Wash”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Peñasco Blanco and Casa Chiquita.
Peñasco Blanco
Protected area
Photo: Bob Adams NM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Casa Chiquita
Archaeological site
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Casa Chiquita is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico, United States. 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, or kiva. Casa Chiquita is situated 2 miles southeast of Chaco Wash.
Chaco Wash
- Categories: arroyo and body of water
- Location: San Juan, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Chaco Wash” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chaco Wash”
- Chinese: “查科旱谷”
- Dutch: “Chaco Wash”
- French: “Chaco Wash”
- Hungarian: “Chaco-kanyon”
- Italian: “Chaco Wash”
- Japanese: “チャコ川”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Clys Canyon and Chaco Culture National Historic Park Historical Marker.
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