This unique site, located just a mile from Yapashi Pueblo ruins, is estimated to be at least a 1,000 years old. It shows the life-size effigies of two crouching mountain lions in a walled enclosure. The shrine is visited by Native Americans as well as hunters praying for a successful hunt.

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