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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Hohokam · United States
Field notes
- civilizations
- Hohokam
- types
- Tower · Dwelling
- built
- 1,892 CE
- occupied
- 1,200 CE — 1,450 CE
- visitors
- 175,025 / year
- country
- United States
The site
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Arizona preserves a massive earthen tower built by the Hohokam people, who farmed the desert with irrigation canals. Occupied from around 1200 to 1450 CE, its four-story Great House of caliche mud still rises above the surrounding dwellings. Protected as a monument since 1892, Casa Grande draws around 175,000 visitors a year to one of North America's most remarkable adobe structures.
