Chaco Canyon was a vibrant center whose impressive Chacoan buildings included Chetro Ketl, Casa Rinconada, Pueblo del Arroyo, Kin Kletso, Peñasco Bianco, and especially Pueblo Bonito, where a few thousand people may have lived during its heyday and thousands more came from far-flung places for great gatherings, ceremonies, and trading events in the plazas below. Many of the hills across the landscape are the remains of fallen villages, and many more communities within the canyon and far beyond had deep physical and spiritual connections to Chaco. Pueblo Bonito was planned, designed, and constructed by successive generations over several centuries, while its unique form and design were maintained and continued to inspire awe a thousand years later. Chaco was alive with brilliantly colored ornaments and clothing, macaw feathers, shells, turquoise, drum beats, flutes, conch-shell trumpets, chanting, and the fragrances of foods and fires. Although the people moved away in the 1200s, they never forgot Chaco, and its songs, stories, languages, ceremonies, pottery, art, turquoise, corn, shells, architecture, and sun-watching continue in the ongoing history and traditions of the Hopi people, the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, and the Navajo people, who still revere and honor this place.