Cliff Dwellings in Benito Canyon
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Benito Canyon is a box canyon on the western slope of the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona, which lies at 5,360 keet in elevation and opens ina southwesternly direction into the Sulpher Springs Valley.
For sporadic periods over the last 700 years, these deep canyons were well-used, first by Indian farmers who planted in the flats along the stream, and later by woodcutters selling fuel to the copper mines that burgeoned at nearby Clifton in the mid-1800’s.
Roughly eight hundred years ago, Indians built little apartment houses into the cliffs along Bonita Creek. These Indians gathered stones and mud and carried them to alcoves in the cliffs. Then, stone by stone, they patiently built walls to partition the spaces, left small windows that offered a strategic view of the creek and nearby hills, and covered their rooms with small branches and brush. Pueblo Devol, with an estimated 50 rooms, was probably the largest of the three major cliff dwellings along Bonita Creek.
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