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Mesa Verde is a National Park in southern Colorado and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site is renown for the numerous Pueblo people villages and ruins. One of the best known is the spectacular cliff dwelling of Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. No one knows why these settlements were abandoned after a relatively short period of habitation.

The cliff dwelling of Ancient Pueblo in Mesa Verde National Park of Colorado, United States

Color landscape photograph of one of the remaining Pueblo cliff dwellings in the side of a cliff within Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado surrounded by thick lush foliage growing in the cliffs.

View of Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, USA.

View of the ancient canyon cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park located in the arid southwest desert of Colorado, USA.

The cliff dwelling of Ancient Pueblo in Mesa Verde National Park of Colorado, southwest USA. The cliff Pueblo dwelling features various adobe building structures on the face of the cliff in Mesa Verde National Park with living quarters, community space, storage areas, and spiritual kivas, beautifully conceived architectural were built by the ancient Pueblo tribes.

Mesa Verde National Park Pueblo structures

Cliff Dwellings

Anasazi Native American cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

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Scenic landscapes of Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.

Mesa Verde National Park in southern Colorado UNESCO World Heritage Site Pueblo ruins Cliff Palace

Man on vacation using his camera. videotaping historical cliff dwellings. Ancestral. Puebloan archaeological sites. Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA.

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Long House cliff house Pueblo indigenous construction, Mesa Verde national park, Colorado, USA.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park hosts a large concentration of ancient pueblos.

Long house cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, Colorado

Sinagua cliff dwelling amongst dense cover within Walnut Canyon national monument.

Mesa Verde National Park, best preserved overhang cliff city built by Pueblo Anasazi people, popular tourist place

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, USA.

Cliff Dwellings at Sunset, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado preserves the remnants of the ancestral Pueblo culture dating back to the 6th century CE, when some of the tribe living in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States migrated to Mesa Verde. The remarkable cliffside dwellings they built are believed to date back to the beginning of the 13th century CE. Although much is unknown, the artifacts preserved at the park indicate a society possessing skills and traditions passed down through generations.

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Woman tourist visiting and photographing the cliff dwelling site of the ancient pueblo tribe in the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA. The complex adobe cliff architecture was built by the southwest American ancient Pueblo, featuring housing, worship sites, storage and community space.

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Long House cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, USA.

Mesa Verde National Park - Wetherill Mesa - Long House View Into the Past

The ruins of a prehistoric village in Mesa Verde National Park.

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