sentences:  Lowry Pueblo is located about northwest of Cortez, Colorado, and about north of Chaco Canyon, one of the major centers of Ancestral Puebloan culture.The pueblo was named for the early area homesteader George Lowry.It is believed to have begun as a relative small community with just a few rooms, but is unusual for the presence of a great kiva, suggesting it served as a communal center for a scattered population before the settlement around it got larger.