Casas Grandes, an old Indian town of Mexico, in the state of Chihuahua, 125 miles SW. of El Paso, surrounded with ruins of Aztec buildings, which seem to indicate a former population of 20,000 to 30,000.
Casas Grandes,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 804
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