<Tr> <Th> Governing body </Th> <Td> private </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Located in present - day New Mexico </Td> </Tr> <P> Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best - known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico . It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126 . </P> <P> According to the National Park Service, "Pueblo Bonito is the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon . Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 to AD 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, this was the center of the Chacoan world ." Anthropologist Brian Fagan has said that "Pueblo Bonito is an archeological icon, as famous as England's Stonehenge, Mexico's Teotihuacan, or Peru's Machu Picchu ." </P>

Pueblo bonito is an ancient archeological site located in what modern day country