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Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Navajo Nation
Chinle Apache County Arizona
White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly. The history of human occupation of the canyon began about 2,000 years ago (but may have been earlier).
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The monument covers 131 square miles (339 km2) and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska mountains.
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