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Source of data for this model: Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico, by Stephen H. Lekson, 1987, University of New Mexico
Press, Albuquerque.
Wijiji (an historic Navaho name for the ruin) is one of the smaller Chaco
villages. It is also symetrical in plan, and is one of a small number of
Anasazi villages that approach being symmetrical. This symmetry suggests
that the village was constructed in a single phase. There is evidence that
Wijiji's 206 rooms and two kivas was built around 1110 AD.
The plaza, measuring 110 x 175 feet, lacks a curving wall of enclosing rooms--unique
in Chaco village design.
Aerial photograph by Paul Logsdon
