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Salmon Ruins Museum

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Salmon Pueblo was constructed as a Chacoan outlier—a settlement or enclave of people from Chaco Canyon—around A.D. 1090. At that time, the pueblo had 275 to 325 original rooms spread across three stories, an elevated tower kiva in its central portion, and a great kiva in its plaza. Subsequent use by local Middle San Juan people (beginning in the 1120s) resulted in extensive modifications to the original building: hundreds of rooms were reused, many of the original large rooms were divided into smaller rooms, and more than 20 small kivas were built into pueblo rooms and plaza areas. The site was inhabited by Pueblo people until the 1280s, when much of the site was destroyed by fire and people left.

The museum exhibits artifacts from the site and Four Corners region.

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Salmon Ruins Museum

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Type of place:
Ancestral Pueblo site
Ownership:
San Juan County
Telephone:
(505) 632-2013
Website:
Salmon Ruins
Hours:
Vary by season; see website.
Entrance fee:
Yes
Nearby heritage sites:
Aztec Ruins National Monument, Chaco Culture NHP, Pueblitos of Dinetah

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