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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- Ute Mountain, entrance to Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado
- View from Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park
- View from southern end of Cliff Palace, kivas in foreground, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- View in Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- View of Spruce Tree House from the Canon Rim in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- View of Square Tower House, showing Crows Nest, Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, Colorado
- View of the West Wall of the Large Ruin at Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec New Mexico
- Vista of the Knife Edge Road and Mesa Cliffs from Park Point in Southwestern Colorado.
- Watch Tower, Cliff Palace
- Watch Tower, Navajo Canon (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
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