According to the U.S. National Park Service, Mesa Verde National Park features 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings. The name is Spanish for “Green Table,” and the area was inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo people from AD 600 to 1300, over 700 years. (source) Mesa Verde, as well as nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument located in Aztec, New Mexico, are an important link to the Native American past of the region and provide significant economic stimulus, with well over half a million people visiting each year. (source)
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- Far View Ruin, Mesa Verde National Park
- Fire House Ruin (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Fire Temple (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Fire Temple and New Fire House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Fire Temple and New Fire House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Fire Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Forest Fire (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.) as seen from Cortez, Colorado
- Fortified entrance to Balcony House Ruin - Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Four Corners: Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
- Four Corners: Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
- Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins
- Great or Classis [sic] Pueblo Period 700 years ago
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