Ojos Tecolotes Traditional Geocache
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Loose rocks and critters. A slight incline with a wash to navigate. I have seen rattlers here and big hairy tarantulas.
Ojos Tecolotes "the eyes of the owl"
Casamero Pueblo Ruins
Single structure of 22 ground-floor rooms of six Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo people who settled here between A.D. 1000 and 1125. Main ruins includes small pueblo (occupied 1000-1125 AD) and unexcavated great kiva.
An unexcavated great kiva is 200 feet (65 meters) southeast of Casamero Pueblo. The small houses contain two to eight rooms. It is thought that the majority of the population at Casamero lived in the smaller structures.
A prehistoric road connected Casamero to another Chacoan outlier located to the east across Casamero Draw. Another road has been identified extending west from a point south of the great kiva. Although evidence of a road linking Casamero to Chaco Canyon has not yet been found, communication and trade with Chaco was probable.
Directions:
take Exit 63 off I-40 at Prewitt, then east of exit junction of US Hwy 66, McKinley County Road 19 leads north to the Plains Escalante Generating Station. Follow that road 4 miles.
This cache is a camoed box and sized for small trade items.
Vandalism permanently destroys the prehistoric record which can only be found in the remains left behind by their makers. It is a crime to steal or destroy cultural resources on Federal or State land. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 makes stealing and vandalizing antiquities on Federal lands a felony, with penalties of up to $100,000 and/or 5 years imprisonment.
Please enjoy the site and of course marvel at the Escalante generating station. 240 Megawatts of power for the people.
There have been some security issues with folks taking pictures of the power plant. Homeland security and all that.
If you go up to the gaurd shack and ask before you take pictures of the power plant they would appreciate it.
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