Casa Malpaís is an archaeological site of the Ancestral Puebloans located near the town of Springerville, Arizona.

The site is at an elevation of 7,000 feet and the pueblo is perched atop terraces in front of basalt cliffs.

[7] This feature consists of a low stone wall enclosing a space 26 meters in diameter, with 5 gates.

"An opening on the structure's northern side appears to be oriented to true north" (Zoll 2012) Another, on the southwest side of the structure, is offset to allow a distinctive rectangular shaft of light to enter in a direct line with the wall during sunset at summer solstice (Zoll 2012, p. 15).

Outside this circular feature, is a Bear Claw petroglyph, which at vernal equinox sunset, fits into a shaft of light produced by a natural rock grouping. "

The first visit to Casa Malpaís by a professional anthropologist was in 1883, when Frank Cushing, an anthropologist living at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, visited a site at "El Valle Redondo on the Colorado Chiquito", and was impressed by what he termed "the fissure type pueblo" he found there.