Canyon de Chelly National Monument
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Contact Information:
PO Box 588
Chinle, AZ 86503
928-674-5500
http://www.nps.gov/cach/
Size: 83,840 acres
Location: In northeastern Arizona. Visitor center is 3 miles from Route 191 in Chinle.
Description: At the base of sheer red cliffs and in canyon wall caves are ruins of Indian villages built between AD 350 and 1300. Modern Navajo Indians live and farm here. Park offers a 34-mile (round trip) North Rim Drive, with views of some of the most beautiful Navajo cliff dwellings in the area, and a 37-mile (round trip) South Rim Drive, with panoramic views of the canyons, the Defiance Plateau, and the Chuska Mountains.
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History: Authorized on February 14, 1931.
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