page_title: Cuarenta Casas
section_title: The Site
hierarchical_section_title: Cuarenta Casas / The Site
caption_attribution_description: English: Cuarenta Casas, Chihuahua, Mexico: Cueva de las Ventanas Deutsch: Cuarenta Casas, Chihuahua, Mexiko: Cueva de las Ventanas This is a photo of a monument in Mexico, identified by ID ZA39
context_page_description: Cuarenta Casas is an archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture.
  Located in Vallecito in the municipality of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Forty Houses is believed to be the southernmost site related to the period of Mogollon influence. The site consists of a series of cliff dwellings built in natural caves in the cliffs of Huapoca Canyon. The best known is the Cueva de las Ventanas. Early Spanish explorers named the site Cuarenta Casas based on their speculation of the total number of structures. The area consists of five main cave communities: Cueva del Puente, Cueva de la Serpiente, Nido del Aguila and Cueva Grande.
context_section_description: Of the cave complex, the only area partially restored is the "Cueva de las Ventanas". It is a small archaeological site constructed with strong walls of poured adobe, with small "T" doors, characterizing the region pre-Hispanic architecture. It is a two-story structure of which only the ground floor rooms can be visited, these are distributed such that space was maximized within the space available in the cave.
caption: The large building in the Cueva de las Ventanas with Room 5 in the background.
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