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Mesa Verde National Park

United States of America
Date of Inscription: 1978
Criteria: (iii)
Colorado
N37 15 42 W108 29 08
Ref: 27

Brief Description

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m. Some 4,400 sites have been recorded, including villages built on the Mesa top. There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.