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Aztec Ruins National Monument is an Ancestral Puebloan Community from the 1100s. The architectural stone masonary structure has over 400 rooms surrounded by a large open plaza and a Great Kiva that has been reconstructed on over 300 acres near the Animas river in Northwestern New Mexico.

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