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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- Long House Ruins, Wetherill Mesa (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Long House, Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
- Long House, Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
- Long House. Mesa Verde National Park.
- Looking into Canon from Balcony House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Looking into canon from Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park, near Mancos, Colorado
- Looking toward Mancos, Colorado, on road from Mesa Verde National Park.
- Looking toward Mancos, on road from Mesa Verde National Park Colorado
- Looking toward Mancos, on road from Mesa Verde National Park Colorado
- Looking toward Mancos, on road from Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Man standing next to a rock formation near Mesa Verde.
- Manitou cliff dwellings, Phantom Cliff Canon (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
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