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Enchanted Mesa

Acoma pueblo village site on a sandstone butte, New Mexico

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Enchanted Mesa is a sandstone butte in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of the pueblo of Acoma. It is called Mesa Encantada in Spanish and Katzimo or Kadzima in Keresan. Acoma tradition says that Enchanted Mesa was the home of the Acoma people until a severe storm and landslide destroyed the only approach. There are no longer any ruins on the flat top. The butte is 430 ft (130 m) high, 1,250 ft (380 m) long and only 400 ft (120 m) ft wide, at its widest. The elevation at the top is 6,643 ft (2,025 m).

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UFO reports

18 November 1974

Lummis records Acoma tradition

1892

Libbey ascent

1897

Hodge reports artifacts

1897

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United States

Coordinates

34.92° N, -107.55° E