Visitors climb a ladder to leave the Balcony House cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park

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Cortez, Colorado - Visitors climb a ladder as they leave the Balcony House cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. The park features cliff dwellings of ancestral Puebloans that are nearly a thousand years old.

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Location: Cortez, Colorado USA
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
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