Snaketown is a

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situated in Pinal County,

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, United States. An Indian village, it is located on the Gila River Indian Community. In the

O'odham language The O'odham peoples, including the Tohono O'odham, the Pima or Akimel O'odham, and the Hia C-ed O'odham, are indigenous Uto-Aztecan peoples of the Sonoran desert in southern and central Arizona and northern Sonora, united by a common heritage ...

, ''ska-kaik'' means "many rattlesnakes", and it is from this term that the village derives its name. Snaketown is the location of the archeological site of the same name. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level.

References

{{authority control Populated places in Pinal County, Arizona Gila River Indian Community