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Mesa Verde Colorado Cliff dwelling region
Place your mouse cursor over the thumbnails below for a description. Click on any of the thumbnail pictures below to see a larger, clearer version of it. Home to the Anasazi Tribe and the ancestor of the Pueblo, the cliff overhangs provided ideal locations to live. Being sheltered from most of the elements, the overhangs were of their selves shelter, but they didn't stop there. On the mountain tops and flatland they had built down into the ground by creating stone lined pit houses to get below the winds and reduce their exposure to several of the elements (especially if they faced South). However in the cliff overhang they went on the opposite direction and built their lodges vertically in a similar manor. Many of the feature found in the round pit house can also be found in the cliff dwelling. Mesa Verde National Park
The entrance to the park is 9 miles east of Cortez and 35 miles west of Durango in Southwestern Colorado on US Highway 160. For the history on the Mesa Verde Park development and some really great photos see The National Park Services Mesa Verde Page For a more information on the Anasazi tribe check out Desert USA
The Pueblo's ancestor lived in the region called the four corner (the corners of Utah, Arizona Colorado and New Mexico). The following photos are outside of the Mesa Verde National Park
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