 The Los Muertos and Pueblo de las Acequias ("City of the Canals") ruins are approximately apart.In 1887, Frank Hamilton Cushing, leader of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, explored the ruins of an early people, a place he called "El Pueblo de los Muertos"—"The City of the Dead"— in the center of which he uncovered many large communal houses, and beyond them found the remains of more sparsely-settled suburbs extending for .The largest of these houses was bigger than Casa Grande.