A trip to the Aztec Ruins National Monument in Aztec, NM
This summer we took a trip through the 4 corners area. Our first stop was at the Aztec Ruins National Monument in Aztec, New Mexico which is located just south of the Colorado border. These ruins were the most accessible ruins of our summer vacation being hardly 200 ft from the parking lot.
Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM (2018)
Aztec Ruins National Monument and World Heritage Site is located in the Four Corners Region of the United States. This site dates back about 900 years. This is one of the sites that tends to get overlooked by people visiting northwest New Mexico. While it is not as extensive as Chaco Canyon or Mesa Verde it is more accessible.
Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Aztec, New Mexico.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in far northwest New Mexico in the city of Aztec.
The Aztec did not live here.
The ancestral Puebloans lived here from the late 1,000s to the late 1200's.
The West Ruin has been excavated; the East Ruin has not. The architecture of Aztec is similar to that of the Chaca Canyon Pueblos.
The West Ruin great house was 3 stories tall, had over 500 rooms, a plaza and many kivas, including a great kiva.
The great kiva was reconstructed in the 1930s.
Great kivas were public buildings that served as the religious and ceremonial center of the community. Common features of great kivas are: a central fire pit, four pillars and floor vaults.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument
Join Youth In Park Rangers Brigitte, Margaret, and Drew as they visit Aztec Ruins National Monument
Pueblo people describe this site as part of their migration journey. Today you can follow their ancient passageways to a distant time. Explore a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo Great House of over 400 masonry rooms. Look up and see original timbers holding up the roof. Search for the fingerprints of ancient workers in the mortar. Listen for an echo of ritual drums in the reconstructed Great Kiva.
Aztec, N.M., Mayor Victor Snover, site of Aztec Ruins World Heritage
Our HOMETOWN HERO is Victor Snover, Mayor of Aztec, New Mexico.
This is an opportunity to see and know Mayor Snover and to see the city's Pioneer Village and Aztec Museum, the great fishing at Navajo Dam on the San Juan River, Wines of the San Juan, the Aztec Restaurant, and the Presidential Inn and Suites all in or near the town of Aztec, New Mexico. Located in Northern New Mexico just south of Durango, Colorado, East of Farmington, New Mexico,
and north of Gallup, New Mexico, Aztec is in the Four Corners, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. So worth a visit and you will see in this video everything you need to visit, stay, and tour.
Aztec Ruins National Monument | New Mexico
Come discover Aztec Ruins National Monument. We enjoyed exploring the ruins which date back 900 years (1100 AD).
We hiked the Aztec West Trail, which is a 0.5 mile loop through the ruins. There are over 500 masonry rooms in the area. Aztec Ruins National Monument is a fee fee park and is NM is definitely worth visiting if you're in the area. It is only 1.5 hrs from Mesa Verde National Park in south western Colorado.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves Ancestral Puebloan structures in North-Western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec and Northeast of Farmington, near the Animas River.
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Join Youth in Park Rangers Margaret, Drew and Brigitte as they visit Bandelier National Monument. Bandelier National Monument protects over 33,000 acres of rugged but beautiful canyon and mesa country as well as evidence of a human presence here going back over 11,000 years. Petroglyphs, dwellings carved into the soft rock cliffs, and standing masonry walls pay tribute to the early days of a culture that still survives in the surrounding communities.
TENOCHTITLAN: Aztec Ruins in the Heart Mexico City
Tenochtitlan was a large Mexica city-state located under much of what is now known as the historic center of Mexico City.
It is quite remarkable that an entire ancient Aztec city exists under the city. The ancient city discovered when a local worker was drilling to access electricity cables.
Once found, the government had two square blocks excavated by demolishing the existing buildings. Additionally, there are places throughout the Zocalo where you can see the ruins below ground.
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Aztec was one of the largest Ancestral Pueblo settlements in the Southwest. It is located between two major centers—Chaco Canyon to the south and Mesa Verde to the north. Both areas strongly influenced the local inhabitants at different times, but the exact nature and extent of the interac¬tion has yet to be sorted out. The west pueblo, containing about 400 rooms, was the largest of the great houses. Several hundred people may have lived there. Hundreds of rooms formed massive walls that were set at right angles around a central plaza. A low row of single-story rooms on the south completed the enclosure. Rooftops once stepped upward in three sun-facing tiers, reaching nearly thirty-feet high on the north wall.
Aztec New Mexico National Monument
45 Minutes from Durango, Colorado a completely restored kiva surrounded by ancient Pueblo ruins
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The Ancestral Puebloan people created villages and mystery in the Southwest. And nowhere has a higher concentration of those villages than New Mexico. Chaco Culture National Historical Park, commonly known as Chaco Canyon, is the best-preserved and largest site that offers insight into the mystery. And a bit farther north Aztec Ruins National Monument is yet another key Ancestral Puebloan village. Why did they build it all, why did they leave so soon, and where did they go? There are theories and research, but Michael and the NM True TV Crew were happy to let the mysteries remain, and let the beauty surround them.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument
Follow ancient passageways to a distant time. Explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms. Look up and see original timbers holding up the roof. Search for the fingerprints of ancient workers in the stucco walls. Listen for an echo of ritual drums in the reconstructed Great Kiva. Adventure into the past.
Chaco Canyon
From AD 850 to 1250, Chaco was a hub of ceremony, trade, and administration for the prehistoric Four Corners area--unlike anything before or since. Chaco is remarkable for its multi-storied public buildings, ceremonial buildings, and distinctive architecture. These structures required considerable planning, designing, organizing of labor, and engineering to construct. The Chacoan people combined many elements: pre-planned architectural designs, astronomical alignments, geometry, landscaping, and engineering to create an ancient urban center of spectacular public architecture--one that still awes and inspires us a thousand years later.
Aztec Sparkles for Christmas at Aztec Ruins in New Mexico on December 8, 2016
Merry Christmas! I love it when they light up the ruins at night, it is absolutely beautiful under the stars.. Merry Christmas!
Please Remember Jesus is the reason for the season! Now a little bit about Aztec with the help of the link listed below for those who are interested.
The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves Ancestral Puebloan structures in North-Western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec and Northeast of Farmington, near the Animas River. Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, with more Puebloan structures, lies a short distance to the south, just west of Bloomfield near the San Juan River. The buildings date to the 11th to 13th centuries, and the misnomer attributing them to the Aztec civilization can be traced back to early American settlers in the mid-19th century. The actual construction was by the Ancestral Puebloans.
The site was declared Aztec Ruin National Monument on January 24, 1923, and with a boundary change it was renamed Ruins on July 2, 1928. As a historical property of the National Park Service, the National Monument was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Aztec Ruins was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, as part of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, on December 8, 1987. The site is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.
Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico 2017 travel vlog
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