Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§445 Canyon De Chelly National Monument; Establishment; Boundaries
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXI — NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 445
Summary
With the Navajo Tribal Council's consent, the President may create the Canyon De Chelly National Monument by proclamation. It would lie inside the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and include Del Muerto, De Chelly, and Monument Canyons (and their side canyons) plus land within one-half mile of the canyon rims, totaling about 83,840 acres in the Navajo meridian.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §445
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With the consent of the tribal council of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, the President of the United States is authorized to establish by presidential proclamation the Canyon De Chelly National Monument, within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, including the lands hereinafter described. All lands in Del Muerto, De Chelly, and Monument Canyons, in the canyons tributary thereto, and the lands within one-half mile of the rims of the said canyons, situated in unsurveyed townships 4 and 5 north, range 7 west; townships 4, 5, and 6 north, range 8 west; townships 4 and 5 north, range 9 west; and in surveyed townships 4 and 5 north, range 6 west; townships 3, 6, and 7 north, range 7 west; township 6 north, range 9 west; and township 5 north, range 10 west; embracing about eighty-three thousand eight hundred and forty acres, all of the Navajo meridian, in Arizona.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1933—Act Mar. 1, 1933, redescribed lands referred to in second par.
Executive Documents
Establishment of Monument; BoundariesMonument and boundaries established by Presidential Proc. No. 1945, Apr. 1, 1931, 47 Stat. 2448; Proc. No. 2036, Mar. 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 2562.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 445
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102