Peñasco Blanco
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.Photo: Bob Adams NM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Protected area
- Description: human settlement in New Mexico, United States of America
- Also known as: “Penasco Blanco” and “Penasco Blanco ruin”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Casa Chiquita and Kin Kletso.
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 1½ miles southeast of Peñasco Blanco.
Kin Kletso
Archaeological site
Kin Kletso is a Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, 25 miles southwest of Nageezi, New Mexico, United States. Kin Kletso is situated 2 miles southeast of Peñasco Blanco.
Peñasco Blanco
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: San Juan, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.08158° or 36° 4′ 54″ northLongitude
-108.00305° or 108° 0′ 11″ westOpen location code
858H3XJW+JQOpenStreetMap ID
way 185295350OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q7179702
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Peñasco Blanco” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Peñasco Blanco”
- Spanish: “Peñasco Blanco”
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Highlights include Penasco Blanco Great Kiva 2 and Penasco Blanco Great Kiva 1.
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