mesaverde

Mesa Verde
related: puebloan peoples, parks

Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado.

It is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. The park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world. As a result it is the first and still only cultural National Park set aside by the National Park System. It occupies 81.4 square miles (211 km2) near the Four Corners and features more than six hundred cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloan people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300.

Mesa Verde is the largest archeological site in the USA

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