Homolovi State Park
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Homolovi State Park
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| location | Navajo County in Arizona (USA) | |
| surface | 18.2 km² | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 2 ' N , 110 ° 38' W | |
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| Setup date | 1986 | |
| administration | Arizona State Parks & Trails | |
The Homolovi State Park is a state park in Navajo County in the US state of Arizona km² with an area of 18.2. It is mainly a conservation reserve of archaeological sites of the Anasazi ( ancestral puebloans ).
Homolovi is a word from the Uto-Aztec language of the westernmost group of the Pueblo Indians , the Hopi , and translated means "place of small hills". They live in northeastern Arizona on the edge of the Painted Desert in a 12,635 km² Indian reservation.
location
The state park is about one mile north of Winslow . It is accessible via Interstate 40 and Arizona State Route 87 . The altitude is 1478 m .
history
The Hisatsinom lived in the barren landscape between 1200 and 1400 . The Pueblo Homolovi II is said to have comprised up to 1200 rooms and was probably abandoned because of a flood disaster. The first excavations were carried out in 1896 and a total of 340 sites have been discovered and uncovered since then. The idea of a state park came into being in 1986 due to an initiative of the Hopi Indians and in 1993 the Homolovi Ruins State Park was opened. A total of four of the ruins were included in the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona between 1983 and 1986 under the names Homolovi I Ruin , Homolovi II , Homolovi III and Homolovi Four (IV) .
The park was closed to the public on February 22nd, 2010 for lack of money. A year later, it was able to reopen in March 2011. On the initiative of the Hopi, the word "ruins" was deleted from the name of the park, because for the Hopi their ancestors and their habitat are alive.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ISBN 978-3-86690-064-6 National Geographic Traveler: State Parks "America's Little National Parks," page 292
- Jump up ↑ Arizona State Parks: Homolovi: Park History
- ^ National Register of Historical Places - ARIZONA (AZ), Navajo County
- ↑ Arizona State Parks: Press release of February 22, 2010 ( Memento of April 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Arizona State Parks: Homolovi State Park - History
Web links
- Homolovi State Park at Arizona State Parks & Trails
- Homolovi Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society