Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, New Mexico)

USA / New Mexico / Aztec / Aztec, New Mexico / Ruins Road, 725
 UNESCO World Heritage Site, national park
725 Ruins Road
Aztec, NM 87410
www.nps.gov/azru/
www.nps.gov/azru/planyourvisit/maps.htm

These ruins have absolutely nothing to do with the Aztecs (who didn't even exist when they were built circa 1000 AD). They are actually Hisatsinom (a.k.a. Anasazi), and part of the Chaco Phenomenon.

This site was home to ancestral Pueblo people. Scholars once thought the Aztecs migrated to Mexico from the southwestern U.S. Later, commercial maps and early settlers mistakenly called monumental ruins along the Animas River - the "Aztec Ruins."

Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. whc.unesco.org/en/list/353

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Ruins_National_Monument
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Coordinates:   36°50'7"N   108°0'2"W
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