Cliff Palace

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Cliff Palace
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“Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in Montezuma County, in the southwestern corner of Colorado, Southwestern United States.”
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National GeographicJul 15

Soar Over the Elaborate Cliffside Villages of the Pueblo People

The sites, from mesa-top pithouses and multistoried dwellings to cliffside villages, document the changes in the lives of a prehistoric people once dubbed the Anasazi. They are now more accurately ...

Large cliff dwelling discovered by cowboys in 1888

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Smithsonian MagazineJul 10, 2025

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Largest cliff dwelling complex

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