Overview

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Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically-significant landscape located in the southwestern region of Colorado. The monument's 176,056 acres are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, as directed in the Presidential proclamation which created the site on June 9, 2000. Canyons of the Ancients encompasses and surrounds three of the four separate sections of Hovenweep National Monument, which is administered by the National Park Service. The monument was proclaimed in order to preserve the largest concentration of archaeological sites in the United States, primarily Ancestral Puebloan ruins. As of 2005, over 6,000 individual archeological sites had been identified within the monument.

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Links: https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/colorado/canyons-of-the-ancients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyons_of_the_Ancients_National_Monument

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Coordinates: 37.466986, -108.976243

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