Views of the Cliff Palace pueblo dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado USA. The ruins can be visited close up via a Park Ranger lead tour.

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Views of the Cliff Palace pueblo dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado USA. The ruins can be visited close up via a Park Ranger lead tour. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde. The ranger guided tour involves uneven steps and climbing 5 ladders. The site consistes of 150 rooms and 23 kivas and had a population of 100 people. It was occupied It was esimated to have been occupied from 1190CE to 1260CE by the ancestral puebloan people.

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Location: Cliff Palace cliff dwelling Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado USA
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