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Casa Rinconada
 
Casa Rinconada
 
Casa Rinconada is the largest Great Kiva in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, located near Nageezi, New Mexico.  Built about 1050 AD, great kivas were used as places of public ceremony by the Ancestral Puebloans.  Great kivas were always aligned to the cardinal directions.  In the case of Casa Rinconada, a window pointing towards the northeast catches the sunlight at summer solstice sunrise and illuminates a niche in the kiva's circular masonry wall.
 
June 19, 2001
From 5:57am to 7:29am MDT
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June 21, 2001
From 6:54am to 8:14am MDT
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  June 21, 2002
From 7:18am to 7:55am MDT
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  June 22, 2002
From 6:10am to 7:15am MDT
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