Hohokam

The Hohokam were farming communities in the Gila and Salt river valleys of present-day Arizona. Their canals sustained agriculture in the Sonoran Desert and supported settlements linked to Southwest trade networks.

Between 1350 and 1375, floods damaged Salt River canal heads and many large settlements were abandoned. The great house at Casa Grande formed part of a Hohokam complex that may have been abandoned by 1450. In 1694 the Jesuit Eusebio Kino visited its ruins and gave the site its Spanish name.