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Type of Place: Ancestral Puebloan site
Ownership: BLM, El Malpais National Conservation Area
Contact: El Malpais National Conservation Area, BLM, PO Box 846, Grants, New Mexico 87020
Telephone: (505) 287-7911
Email:
Website: Dittert Site
Hours: Open year round
Entrance Fee: No
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Site Summary: The site is a L-shaped masonry structure that was originally two stories high and consisted of 30-35 rooms and a kiva. It was built and occupied sometime between AD 1000 and 1300.

Getting There:
Five miles east of Grants on I-40, then continue nine miles south on SR 117 to the BLM ranger station where you can ask for directions.

     

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