Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the Chacoan Great Houses, stands at the foot of Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon's northern rim.

The best-preserved examples of the stone and adobe dwellings are in National Parks ( USA ), such as Chaco Canyon or Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

Casa Rinconada, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico

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* Chaco Culture National Historical Park at Nageezi

* Chaco Culture National Historical Park ( part )

* Chaco Culture National Historical Park ( part )

Other nearby attractions include the Aztec Ruins, about 15 miles to the north in the town of Aztec, and the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, approximately 50 miles to the south.

Mesa Verde National Park lies about to the northwest, and Chaco Culture National Historical Park is about to the southeast.

Ancient Pueblo Peoples ruins at Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon

In New Mexico there is also the Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Capulin Volcano National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, El Malpais National Monument, El Morro National Monument, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, Petroglyph National Monument, and the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

* Chaco Canyon in Chaco Culture National Historical Park

* Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Fajada Butte is in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwest New Mexico.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest.

* Chaco Culture National Historical Park

For the great house masonry pueblos, see Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

* Chaco Culture, a historic indigenous culture of New Mexico, United States

* Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a national park in New Mexico, United States

Petroglyph of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon which is suspected to represent the historic supernova SN 1054 at the time of its conjunction with the moon in the morning of 5 July.

The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.

They are responsible for the creation of the 34, 000 square kilometre Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Area ( KINP ).

Some of the more known evidence of the ancient pueblo peoples can be found at Chaco National Park in New Mexico, and Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.

Resistencia is also home to a number of museums, including the René Bruseau Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, the Augusto Schulz Museum of Natural History, the Juan Alfredo Martinet Museum of Anthropology, the Ichoalay Cultural Museum, and the Ertivio Acosta Museum of Man in Chaco.

Other cultural centers that one must visit are the Museum and the Library Maestro Fermin Lopez, where you can find personal belongings of Natalicio Talavera, Fermin Lopez, Manuel Ortiz, as well as weapons from the Chaco War, a collection of coins and Paraguayan bills, and arrows and axes made by the Indians.

Other centers of culture include the “ Maestro Fermín López ” Municipal Library and Museum, housing personal belongings of Fermín López and Natalicio Talavera ; arms and ammunitions from the Chaco War, a collection of Paraguayan coins and bills, as well as other artifacts: native arrows, axes and bows, old furniture, machines, paintings, photographs and pieces of religious art.

* The National Museum of Natural History's description of Gran Chaco

In Chaco Canyon, Chacoan developers quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.

One of the most fascinating and intriguing aspects of Ancestral Puebloan infrastructure is at Chaco Canyon and is the Chaco Road, a system of roads radiating out from many great house sites such as Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl and Una Vida, and leading towards small outlier sites and natural features within and beyond the canyon limits.

Through analysis of various strontium isotopes, archaeologists have realized that much of the timber that composes Chacoan construction came from a number of distant mountain ranges, indicative also of the Chaco Road's economic significance.

He also took measures to reduce the threat to settled Paraguayans from the marauding Indian tribes that still roamed the Chaco.

In contrast, Indians from the Bolivian high plateau area, known as the Altiplano, were forced into the Bolivian army, had no real interest in the war, and failed to adapt to the hot Chaco climate.

The definition of the northwestern boundary with Bolivia, extending through the low hills of the Chaco region, dates from 1938.

The boundary between the Chaco and Brazil was defined in 1927 ; it continues from the confluence of the Apa River ( Río Apa ) and Paraguay River northward along the course of the Río Paraguay to the border with Bolivia.

Separated from the Eastern region by the Paraguay River, the Chaco region is a vast plain with elevations reaching no higher than and averaging.

One Argentine company, whose owner had purchased 15 percent of the immense Chaco region, processed massive quantities of tannin, which were extracted from the bark of the Chaco's ubiquitous quebracho ( break-axe ) hardwood.

* Paraguay: 166, 000 Standard German-speakers ( including 18, 000 Mennonites, who don't speak Plattdeutsch or Mennonite Low German ); plus 20, 000 Mennonite Low German, spoken by Mennonites who live in Chaco and Eastern Paraguay The Mennonites emigrated to Paraguay from Chihuahua State ( in Mexico ), the Soviet Union, Canada, and Bolivia.

In 1588 – 89 St. Francis Solanus crossed the Chaco wilderness from Peru and stopped at Asunción, but gave no attention to the Guaraní.

During the The Broken Ear, San Theodoros and its hostile neighbor Nuevo Rico go to war over the area of Gran Chapo ( grand chapeau, " Big Hat ") in 1937 – an allusion to the Chaco War fought by Bolivia and Paraguay over Gran Chaco from 1932-1935.

Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey ( July 8, 1863 – July 17, 1935 ) was President of Bolivia from March 5, 1931 until he was overthrown in a coup d ' état on November 27, 1934, during the country's disastrous Chaco War with Paraguay.

The administration was immediately plagued by serious difficulties stemming from the Great Depression and the eruption of the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ( 1932 – 35 ).

On April 8, 1879 Commander Luis Jorge Fontana founded the settlement that would become the capital of the National Territory of Chaco from 1884 to June 15, 1955, when it gained the status of province.

The autonomous region of Gran Chaco is from where most of the gas is exploited.

* 1911, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: A company of cavalry went from Fort Wingate to quell a possible uprising by Navajo.

The region remained largely unexplored and inhabited by both Europeans and Argentines until the late 19th Century, when, after the Paraguayan War, several Argentine military expeditions conquered it from the aboriginals and the National Territory of Chaco was created in 1884.

Chaco derives from chacú, the Quechua word used to name a hunting territory or the hunting technique used by the people of the Inca Empire.

When they go hunting, the indians gather from many parts the vicuñas and guanacos, that crowd is called Chacu, in the Quechua language, which is common in Peru, and that Spaniards have corrupted into Chaco.

The open vegetation of the Caatinga and the Cerrado separate it from the Amazon, and the dry vegetation of the central depressions of the Chaco separate it from the Andean Forest.