🏛️ Cahokia Mounds

United States · Americas · Cultural · 38.66°N, 90.10°W

The Cahokia Mounds is the site of a Native American city which existed c. 1050 – c. 1350 AD, directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. The park covers 2,200 acres, and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 AD, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km2), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people.

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Quick facts

Country	United States
Continent / region	Americas
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	38.66°N, 90.10°W · view on map

Cahokia Mounds is a cultural World Heritage site in United States, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Cahokia Mounds was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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