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 culture. Sophisticated construction occurred throughout Chaco Canyon between AD 900 to 1100. This image shows some of the remaining outside wall of Pueble Bonito. Pueblo Bonito (pretty village in Spanish) had more than six hundred rooms, four to five story high buildings, several ceremonial structures called kivas, and a population between 800 and 1200 persons.'))
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 that eventually formed across the river, constricting the flow. Within this beige, sausage-shaped structure is a small entrance to a cave in the middle of which is a pool maybe 12 feet across. The cave is very warm and humid owing to the hot water that is continuously dripping from the ceiling into the pool.'))
 contains much of the largest lava field in New Mexico. The lava flows fill a large basin, 60 by 35 miles, rimmed by higher sandstone that forms large, wind-carved bluffs along much of the malpais. La Ventana Natural Arch formed in a bend in these sandstone cliffs to the east.'))
 dune field. Unlike other desert sands, the dunes are cool to the touch, due to the high rate of evaporation of surface moisture and also to the fact that the sands reflect, rather than absorb, the sun\'s rays. There is virtually no fresh water within the white sands dune field. Plants growing here are capable of surviving the long dry seasons and constantly shifting sand. Animals living in the dunes (notice the faint tracks across the bottom in this image) must get almost all their water solely from the food they eat. White Sands is Northeast of Los Cruces and west of Alamogordo. It is adjacent to the White Sands proving grounds used by the military for various kinds of weapons testing. On the first Saturdays of April and October, when accompanied tours are provided, determined tourists may visit Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in July, 1945.'))
 dune field. Unlike other desert sands, the dunes are cool to the touch, due to the high rate of evaporation of surface moisture and also to the fact that the sands reflect, rather than absorb, the sun\'s rays. There is virtually no fresh water within the white sands dune field. Plants growing here are capable of surviving the long dry seasons and constantly shifting sand. Animals living in the dunes (notice the small tracks at the bottom in this image) must get almost all their water solely from the food they eat. White Sands is Northeast of Los Cruces and west of Alamogordo. It is adjacent to the White Sands proving grounds used by the military for various kinds of weapons testing. On the first Saturdays of April and October, when accompanied tours are provided, determined tourists may visit Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in July, 1945.'))
 dune field. Unlike other desert sands, the dunes are cool to the touch, due to the high rate of evaporation of surface moisture and also to the fact that the sands reflect, rather than absorb, the sun\'s rays. There is virtually no fresh water within the white sands dune field. Plants growing here are capable of surviving the long dry seasons and constantly shifting sand. Animals living in the dunes must get almost all their water solely from the food they eat. White Sands is Northeast of Los Cruces and west of Alamogordo. It is adjacent to the White Sands proving grounds used by the military for various kinds of weapons testing. On the first Saturdays of April and October, when accompanied tours are provided, determined tourists may visit Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in July, 1945.'))
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